All parts of the system must be accountable, but that need not be government
and the penalties need not be financial.
Consider what happens in a medium sized organization when a mid level manager
hits the end of the quarter, is behind on quota and sends out a spamming run
that nets $500K in additional earnings. Let us consider the following two
penalities:
A) Company is fined $50K through immediate forfeiture of a performance bond
that was posted.
B) Other companies stop accepting email from the company
Penalty A is not likely to be effective. The manager might get a slap on the
wrist but they brought in $450K net. Its not a close call to turn a blind eye.
Senior management is not going to ever know it happened.
Penalty B has immediate effect and visibility right the way up the management
chain. I would say that it was likely to be rather more effective.
Accountability = Authentication + Accreditation + Consequences
I make this case in my book on stopping Internet crime, the dotCrime Manifesto.
I also compare the development of solutions to the spam problem to the problem
of 'finding the longitude'
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From: asrg-bounces(_at_)irtf(_dot_)org on behalf of Franck Martin
Sent: Thu 11/13/2008 3:31 PM
To: Anti-Spam Research Group - IRTF
Subject: Re: [Asrg] Email Postage (was Re: FeedBack loops)
And penalize inappropriate use, is generally a government function. If there is
success in shutting down botnets, is because gov resources are affected to the
problem.
I think feedback loops are for the good guys. The bad guys will not play by any
rule.
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From: "Phillip Hallam-Baker" <pbaker(_at_)verisign(_dot_)com>
To: "Anti-Spam Research Group - IRTF" <asrg(_at_)irtf(_dot_)org>, "Anti-Spam
Research Group - IRTF" <asrg(_at_)irtf(_dot_)org>
Sent: Friday, 14 November, 2008 8:16:49 AM (GMT+1200) Auto-Detected
Subject: Re: [Asrg] Email Postage (was Re: FeedBack loops)
Actually the underlying intellectual conceit of market fundamentalism is that
the market is a perfectly tuned feedback loop.
We do not need to charge for inappropriate use of email, we only need to
penalize inappropriate use.
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