[IP] more on MAYBE NSF SHOULD FIX THEIR SYSTEM!!!!! Talk about cyber-trust -- your unsubscribe request

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Then maybe they should use a different sofyware.

Dave

------ Forwarded Message
From: James M Galvin <galvin@elistx.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 20:07:31 -0500
To: <dave@farber.net>
Subject: Re: [IP] MAYBE NSF SHOULD FIX THEIR SYSTEM!!!!! Talk about
cyber-trust -- your unsubscribe request

It's not really NSF, per se, it's Lyris.  Challenge response systems
(e.g., subscribing and unsubscribing with confirmation) really need to
include a time-based component in the token, which Lyris does not.  In
this case, the token is just a subaddress, in email terms.

Jim



--On Saturday, January 08, 2005 6:14 PM -0500 David Farber
<dave@farber.net> wrote:

>
> ------ Forwarded Message
> From: Waldo Jaquith <waldo@jaquith.org>
> Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 18:10:54 -0500
> To: <dave@farber.net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Talk about cyber-trust -- your unsubscribe request
>
> Dave,
>
> On Jan 8, 2005, at 6:02 PM, David Farber wrote:
> > Would anyone explain this to me!!!
>
> This phishing scam is sending mail spam-style.  One of their harvested
> addresses is leave-cyber-trust-announce-40053J@lists.nsf.gov,   This
> address is unique to you, for unsubscribing from cyber-trust-announce,
> since it was harvested from your own post to Interesting People [1].
> So you were duly unsubscribed by Lyris.
>
> [1]
> 
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200412/msg0005
2.html


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