Spammers hapless fate = ISP toil and sweat

Hello again,

On 17-Sep-97 Pontus Ekman wrote:
> I move RIPE that takes the suggested task force under consideration. The
> major problem may be to keep any analysis and proposed countermeasures out
> of the adversaries´hands. 

I believe that this is exactly the same theory behind having the CERT or not.
Security alerts are issued for interested parties because it's better to know
where the security risks *are* and plug them then stop disseminating security
loopholes because potential hackers may use exactly the CERT alerts to hack
other machines...

Tools like SATAN and others exist to detect security flaws on you own machines
and to help you out eliminating those security risks. Of course hackers will
happily use SATAN and related tools to attack other people's machines.

It's a compromise between sharing your know how and letting the potential
hackers know what you know.

I believe that the same applies to anti-spamming techniques.

        - Luis
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