Spam Solutions from an Expert

Mod N writes "SecurityFocus has posted a nice survey of anti-spam technologies by spam expert Neal Krawetz, in which he delves deeply into the specifics and pitfalls of the numerous proposed solutions. Krawetz makes it obvious that securing the email infrastructure is a very complex problem that many of the current (simple) solutions can't solve alone."

Comments

insightful... insight to violence

[Roger Keith Barrett]

This should be modded flamebait. Talking about violence as a solution to spam is frankly just total bullshit.

If you get that angry because of hitting delete (even if is an excessive number of times) you have an anger management problem.

Re:Yes, of course...

[calambrac]

The computer isn't given the benefit of looking at the actual code? What are you talking about? If the compiler were designed to read into code for things like while(true) loops, this would be solved?

Allright, tell me how to write the compiler to catch this:

int i=1;
int x=new_x(); //random int x>1
int y=new_y(x); //random int 0<y<x
while(i%x != 0)
{
x=new_x(); //random int x>1
y=new_y(x); //random int 0<y<x
i=(x*i)+(x-y);
}
printf("halt");

Will halt ever print? Should I ask my computer? Maybe in a few years when processors are waaay faster and we have those fancy "while(true)"-proof compilers?