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Re: [Asrg] An "ideal" false positive (TMGRS take 2)

2010-01-29 08:34:19


--On 29 January 2010 08:56:07 -0500 Rich Kulawiec <rsk(_at_)gsp(_dot_)org> 
wrote:

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 07:04:42PM +0100, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
Alice reports as spam a message from Bob, either by mistake or out
of curiosity.

But there is no way to know that Alice actually filed the report
or that Bob actually sent the message.

If either Alice's or Bob's system is a zombie, which -- if they're
running Windows -- already has a two-digit percentage probability which
has been monotonically increasing for most of a decade -- then there is
no way for any external observer to distinguish between:

So, does that mean that all computer mediated communication is pointless?

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