Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui(_at_)plaidworks(_dot_)com> writes:
And that's the rub at putting anonymity down at the transport
layer. you open up a huge hole for the spammers to use; they'll
simply start setting up trust engines using bogus real world data,
and use that to relay spam in to you. And as fast as you figure out
that you're trusting something untrustworthy, they'll move on and
replace it with a new bogus trust handler.
I'd be interested to know if you've looked at modern attack resistant
trust metrics in detail before saying that. Metrics like Advogato,
PageRank, and my own TrustFlow are explicitly designed to resist
attackers who try to artifically inflate their trust through mass
identity creation.
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