UserFriendly on Bill Gates’ obviously wrong claims
January 30th, 2006 by Ren and Stimpy , Filed under: Microsoft, Commentary, Spam
two years ago bill gates came up with a proclamation saying that in two years spam will be gone.
we’ve been considering what to write about these claims (now known as wrong, what a shock), for about three weeks now. we ended up deciding the regular press will cover it.
anyway, today on funsec paul ferguson (fergie) saved us the trouble:
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20060130
“spam is dead in two years!” was one in a series of such predictions, starting with the classic:
“640k ought to be enough for everybody”
– bill gates, 1981.
bill gates is obviously a genius, but as Sunshine keeps insisting on writing in his blog; prophecy was given to fools. bill gates is no fool and should stay away from such prophecy. it’s obviously not his thing.
bill, you might be an anti-spam kook if…
http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html
(got anything to tell ren&stimpy? email us: rennstimpy@securiteam.com)
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I’m not up to date with anti-spam techniques but
one way i see to counter spam is to check the sender’s mail address on the sender’s mx. If there’s no such sender, the mail is discarded or sent to a special folder. Is it that hard to implement this kind of check? Am I missing something here? (of course there are the obligatory security considerations, which? But, I’m only trying to be pragmatic).
You mean implement the security on the mail server? The problem is that the scammers would simply use a mail server that doesn’t do the check even if that means using their own.
I did hear that Berners-Lee was working on something to require authentication. But I have no idea where I read it and I only read the heading. It was probably some over-hyper rubbish anyway.