Comments on: Sharpmail Anonymous Email service http://frankdzedzy.com/2006/07/12/sharpmail-anonymous-email-service/ A blog about IT Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:38:24 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Monkey http://frankdzedzy.com/2006/07/12/sharpmail-anonymous-email-service/comment-page-1/#comment-63208 Monkey Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:13:21 +0000 http://frankdzedzy.com/2006/07/12/sharpmail-anonymous-email-service/#comment-63208 Have you even looked up the definition of "open relay" of course you created an open relay, you were allowing people to send mail to anyone else and specify their own from address. not all of your users will be technically minded so an email from "branchmanager@yourbank.com" could fool some old lady into giving up account info. This would be exactly the kind of thing that your "service" could be used for, I know that you posted this in 2006 when "phishing" wasn't as common as it is today, but thats no excuse, I cant help but think that services like yours are what caused the whole problem in the first place. You are lucky that you got a take down notice and were not held responsible for anything bigger... Have you even looked up the definition of “open relay” of course you created an open relay, you were allowing people to send mail to anyone else and specify their own from address.

not all of your users will be technically minded so an email from “branchmanager@yourbank.com” could fool some old lady into giving up account info. This would be exactly the kind of thing that your “service” could be used for, I know that you posted this in 2006 when “phishing” wasn’t as common as it is today, but thats no excuse, I cant help but think that services like yours are what caused the whole problem in the first place.

You are lucky that you got a take down notice and were not held responsible for anything bigger…

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