full-disclosure - VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder

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Message-ID: <FABA89C3-ED57-11D7-891E-000A95864792@joshie.com>
From: jlevitsk at joshie.com (Joshua Levitsky)
Subject: VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder

On Sep 22, 2003, at 7:50 PM, Richard M. Smith wrote:

> I don't think the Verisign SMTP server would suffer.  Since it rejects
> incoming messages before the message body and attachments are sent.
> Darn it.
>
> Another approach might be to start selling CD's with 30 million email
> addresses for spaming that have nothing but bad domain names.
>
> Of course, all this would be wrong anyway.  We don't really want to be
> following Verisign's bad example and hacking the Internet. ;-)

Damn.. I must be sleepy since I just told someone that they error out 
before you hit the DATA portion of the transaction.

I like the CD idea... tho yes.. it would be in poor taste... and 
probably less fun than flushing all the toilets in the dorm at 2am...

-Josh