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Re: [Asrg] Re: Notes on Callback SMTP Transmission

2003-03-29 17:41:34
On Friday, Mar 28, 2003, at 10:39 US/Eastern, David F. Skoll wrote:
1 - NastySpammer sends millions of connections from thousands of 0wned hosts, and suddenly poor victim gets a DDoS from all the callbacks from hosts attempting to receive the purported mail.

That's really no different from the same person having the 0wned hosts directly DDoS the victim, or having the 0wned hosts send out ping packets with the victim's IP address. Already illegal most places, and the spammer already has the capability, so the proposal isn't making anything worse.

I think that objecting to a proposal because it allows bad guys to mount an attack they can already mount is a bit nit-picky.


mathew

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