 | | Re: E-mail authentication during posting —Ross Crawford
| | | | (...) And it'd have to be something that can't be easily automated by the poster - this defeats the scheme. I've seen some web pages which generate a bitmap containing a string which isn't easily scanned, and asks you to type the string in to (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: E-mail authentication during posting —Horst Lehner
| | | | | Hello Ross, hello everybody, (...) Can one of you set me straight: I assume the attacker has no access to my email account. How could he, then, automate an email reply I have to send in order to make my post valid? As for a minimum amount of (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: E-mail authentication during posting —Ross Crawford
| | | | | (...) If you automate the reponse to the authentication e-mail, all I have to do is spoof your identity as Mad Hatter has done several times. Because the authentication gets sent to your email regardless of where I post from, and your response is (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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