On 28 janv. 2004, at 16:45, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:

> Looking at the current outbreak of the Mydoom.A worm I would like to
> share and discuss some thoughts:

You bring some definitely interesting points here.

I agree with your 1) and 2), but 3) rises some technical concern

> 3.1.2.) e-mail Alias and Web-Interface
> Additionally providers should provide e-mail aliases for the IP
> addresses of their customers (eg. customer at 127.0.0.1 can be reached
> via 127.0.0.1 (at) provider (dot) com [email concealed]) or a web interface with similiar
> functionality. The latter should be provided when dynamically assigned
> IP addresses are used for which an additional timestamp is required.

could be a really good idea, if not so easy to use for spammers or even
for virii. The moment you setup such a service, spammers/virus coder
will write a script that can reach every single user with an active
connexion. It's a really major drawback I think.

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