Re: spam closes Debian bugs!
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 04:34:01PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> I think it is. It's trivial to create a mail message that vaguely looks
> like a PGP-signed message, and send out spam that way. There's no way to
> check whether a message has a valid PGP signature except for running gpg
> or pgp, which is much more CPU-intensive than adding a random text that
> has the look of a PGP signature. Implementing this is equal to creating
> a *very* easy DoS attack vector.
Please stop with the FUD. This argument is laughable.
--Adam
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Adam McKenna <adam@debian.org> <adam@flounder.net>
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