Robots in the WoT (clean version)

Eugene Smiley eugene@esmiley.net
Mon Jun 30 03:51:56 2003


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John wrote:
> But really...I have a very ignorant question about bots in the
> keyservers. Does it make any sense that it's possible for =
someone
> to bot a keyserver to get a darn good sized amount of *real*
> e-mail addresses, and then use them for a spamming session? I
> don't understand anywhere near enough about keyservers or
> cryptography or that kind of thing (I just know how to use my=
 key
> and make up a keyring, heh), so maybe this isn't feasible, =
right?

It's very feasible and there are a few scripts (in Perl) out =
there
that could be easily modified to do just that.

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