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

2010-02-14 19:03:22
The Bad Guys who have their hands on those 100M+ systems out there
can use them, or any other systems they have access to, to create an
essentially-unlimited number of accounts at any/all of the 10K+
freemail providers out there. [2]

Quite.

This exerts pressure (in the evolutionary sense) against trusting
anything from those webmail providers.

I consider this a good thing.

It also is a reason the botnet herders (the smarter ones, at least)
will be hesitant to use that ability, because if that evolutionary
pressure gets strong enough to get "the net" to start distrusting those
webmailers more strongly and actively, the value of having that access
drops correspondingly.  They (FWVO "they") won't spend that coin unless
they believe they'll get enough value to make it worth it.

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