10-10-2005, 10:46 AM
Quote:Claims that user authentication schemes will reduce spam are not just wrong but "wrongheaded", a security researcher warned on Friday.
Dmitri Alperovitch, principal research scientist at security appliance firm CipherTrust, agreed with FitzGerald that user authentication schemes are unlikely to have much impact on spam. Spammers have become early adopters of email authentication technology, he said.
http://www.theregister.com/2005/10/10/sp...effective/