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Verizon.net Finally Moving Email To Port 587

Posted by kdawson on from the decade-late-and-a-megabuck-short dept.

The Washington Post's Security Fix blog is reporting that Verizon, long identified as the largest ISP source of spam, is moving to require use of the submission port, 587, in outbound mail — and thus to require authentication. While spammers may still be able to relay spam through zombies in Verizon's network, if the victims let their mail clients remember their authentication credentials, at least the zombies will be easily identifiable. Verizon pledges to clean up their zombie problem quickly. We'll see.

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  1. Re:Do zombies even use ISP mail servers? by bluefoxlucid · · Score: 1, Troll

    those who would give up blahblah ben franklin

    In general I'm against monitoring people secretly and continuously; but in the case of cities where children are legally or physically possibly present, it's a good choice to make to stop pedophiles.

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  2. Re:Do zombies even use ISP mail servers? by bluefoxlucid · · Score: 0, Troll

    The best part is it's ridiculously close to a strawman fallacy, and just barely escapes by actually being analogous to the original argument.

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