That much trouble? [LWN.net]

That much trouble?

Posted Sep 6, 2004 1:36 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: That much trouble? by Russell
Parent article: Debian rejects Sender ID

Right, but... Try to think about it again. When I talk about 2) I do not talk about professional spammers! I talk about normal lawful internet citiziens. They do want to send anonymous mail to this or that website and/or to this or that mailing list. All the time. It's not some obscure twist - a lot of peoples become very nervous if you'll suggest some theme when mail can be easily tracked to physical person.

This is good and all, but... if you can not trace back "normal" sender (who never even seriusly attempted to to cover tracks!) how the hell can you ever hope to trace back professional spammer ?

This is what I meant above: people somehow think magic SenderID or something can make spammers easily trackeable but still will not affect anonymity of "lawful citiziens". It's impossible.

And if you'll trink about it pgp-mail does exactly what you're proposing. It was around for more the 10 years. It's still not widely used. Why ? Since pgp-mail (once you'll demand correct signatures with keys registered on few well-controlled key-servers) will "greatly affect privacy - and we do not want it". But if you got privacy then why can not spammers get privacy the same way (no matter what authentification scheme is in use) ?

Think about it...

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