Re: oh boy, oh boy, oh boy

[Aaron Kenney <awkenney@sbcglobal.net>]

Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 05:32 -0600, sreindl@apci.net wrote:
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>>This looks pretty cool. If it would only break the spammer's fingers too.
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>>http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/fairuce
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>Steve,
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>My gut feeling when I saw this was that "returning serve" in this way
>was probably not the best counter-spam strategy, particularly when so
>many spam senders are compromised broadband systems. FairUCE is a
>capability that corporate counsels would probably nix because of the
>high potential for expensive litigation spawned by just one wrongfully
>rejected piece of legitimate e-mail correspondence. Murphy is alive and
>well (and in hiding).
>
>--Doc
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Yet IBM still claims the technology doesn't target the compromised 
system, that it works on network layer, and has the capability of 
tracing the source. If this tech does it's detection by some sort of 
data link layer proprietary method, in theory it could work. It just has 
to have some way of puzzling all of the cooresponding packets on various 
compromised systems back to the source. Sounds difficult, but you know 
IBM is due.
-Aaron Kenney


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