Re: [fw-wiz] Lists of IP's we should be blocking

From: Paul D. Robertson (paul_at_compuwar.net)
Date: 12/12/04

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    To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 13:32:50 -0500 (EST)

    On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Adam Shostack wrote:

    > If you're a bank, and your answer is yes, you want me calling with my
    > spyware concerns, please let me know which bank. I'll have everyone I
    > know open up a $100 savings account with you so that people stop
    > calling me with their spyware problems.

    Have them call me, I could use the money ;)

    > The belief that a list of 'bad identities' will help security is
    > suprisingly persistant. We see it distorting air travel safety.
    > (Just ask Congressmen Ted Kennedy or John Lewis, or any David Nelson
    > you meet, or Johnnie Thomas, or...) Let's not let it distort internet
    > security as well.

    I've been playing a little with a contact Web site[1][2] that "introduces"
    folks by degrees of separation- I'm wondering if we could whitelist 90%
    of the Internet that way with some relatively simple mail parsing programs
    and a web of trust of a couple hundred people on this list?

    Paul
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