John Sequeira

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Wednesday, October 22, 2003


Using identity to fight spam... without PKI

http://taint.org/2003/10/20/014800a.html

This is a big idea, with input from an eminently pragmatic programmer who knows something about distributed trust metrics, Bram Cohen. Some type of web of trust is a prerequisite to implementing Paul Graham's filters that fight back -- identifying trusted sites that don't deserve to be bombarded by spam blow-back.

I really like Paul's idea, and hope that the flaws can be addressed. It's the only solution I've read about that could make a difference even if it wasn't implemented by everyone, and (the big 'and') changes the economics of spam. I have a feeling that any solution that ignores this just puts the problem off until sometime in the future.
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PHP Scalability myth

via Chris

http://www.cwinters.com/News/show/?news_id=1047
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