"more secure" 3rd-party file sharing?

[Bruce Dawson]

> On 8/23/06, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
...
>> ... SSL can be enforced ...
>
>   So can PGP or S/MIME.  (Yes, I saw your report of their objection.
> You presumably saw my objections to their objection.  :)  )
...

I should point out that SSL/PGP/S/MIME won't stop the spammers. They will
just start sending authenticated spam! It *might* make it easier to track
them down - until a "free" Cert Authority crops up, and then we'll have
the same problem all over again (Spam that can't be authenticated, but
because the CA is too overwhelmed to trace it to a [probably fictitous]
address). Plus they'll all move off-shore, so we can't do anything about
them - or the lawyer fees will become prohibitively expensive to go after
them.

And I can easily see some small country making spamming legal (probably as
long as it is to addresses outside that small country).

Spam via email is a social problem that can only be fixed by *requiring*
pre-authorized access to a mail server. Unfortunately, this prohibits
"just anyone" from sending you an email.

--Bruce