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1997-08-08 - Re: forged cancels (Re: Entrust Technologies’s Solo - free

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From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Message ID: <e4H4ae46w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
Reply To: <19970807173814.48963@bywater.songbird.com>
UTC Datetime: 1997-08-08 02:22:10 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 19:22:10 -0700 (PDT)

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From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 19:22:10 -0700 (PDT)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: forged cancels (Re: Entrust Technologies's Solo - free
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Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 07, 1997 at 12:53:16PM -0700, Ross Wright wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > For no reason whatsoever should you cancel a message you did not send
> > yourself.

Yep.

> How about if it is an employee of yours, using your computer
> equipment, that sent the message, in explict contradition to your
> companies stated policy?

Use a retraction server (David's project)

> How about if it is your 5 year old child who
> just sent a 5 megabyte spam to 500 groups?

Ditto.

> What if the message is
> forged in such a way that it looks exactly as if it came from you?

Ditto, and consider setting up a service to automatically issue NoCeMs
for forgeries.

> What if the sender asks you to cancel it because they don't know how?

Make the retraction server easier to use.

> Absolutist thinking is *almost* always wrong :-)

kent Crispin sounds like a pedophile.

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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