At 12:28 PM -0800 2/7/02, John Hudson wrote:
>1. The software industry has already devised mechanisms to protect
>against e-mail forgery, e.g. private-public key encryption.
>
And nobody uses them because they're too complex.
>2. What you describe is criminal fraud and there are laws to protect
>against such 'spoofing' and to punish those who perpetrate it.
>
Yes, there are. And there are laws to protect against spam and denial
of service attacks and cracking systems. For that matter there are
laws to protect against burglary, but I still have locks on my front
door. Laws are no substitute for prevention.
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