Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-12-12 Thread Mihael Pranjić
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2009-12-12 05:28, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > On 12/11/09 9:08 PM, Mihael Pranjić wrote: >> On 2009-12-12 04:06, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >>> On 12/9/09 2:51 PM, Jesse Thompson wrote: On 12/3/2009 3:02 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > On 12/2/

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 12/11/09 9:08 PM, Mihael Pranjić wrote: > On 2009-12-12 04:06, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >> On 12/9/09 2:51 PM, Jesse Thompson wrote: >>> On 12/3/2009 3:02 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 12/2/09 2:22 PM, Jesse Thompson wrote: > Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >> On 11/25/09 11:53 AM, Jesse

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-12-11 Thread Mihael Pranjić
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2009-12-12 04:06, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > On 12/9/09 2:51 PM, Jesse Thompson wrote: >> On 12/3/2009 3:02 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >>> On 12/2/09 2:22 PM, Jesse Thompson wrote: Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > On 11/25/09 11:53 AM, Jesse Th

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 12/9/09 2:51 PM, Jesse Thompson wrote: > On 12/3/2009 3:02 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >> On 12/2/09 2:22 PM, Jesse Thompson wrote: >>> Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 11/25/09 11:53 AM, Jesse Thompson wrote: > Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >>> I think that the key for the 'right/best' anti

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-12-09 Thread Jesse Thompson
On 12/3/2009 3:02 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 12/2/09 2:22 PM, Jesse Thompson wrote: Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 11/25/09 11:53 AM, Jesse Thompson wrote: Peter Saint-Andre wrote: I think that the key for the 'right/best' anti-SPAM XMPP solution is to involve regular/polite XMPP users in a

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-12-09 Thread Jesse Thompson
On 12/3/2009 2:42 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 12/2/09 2:35 PM, Adam Seabrook wrote: I have not been reading all of this thread so I apologise if this has already been raised. Why not just set up something similar to www.senderbase.org where we all report the number of messages received from

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-12-03 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 12/2/09 2:22 PM, Jesse Thompson wrote: > Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >> On 11/25/09 11:53 AM, Jesse Thompson wrote: >>> Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > I think that the key for the 'right/best' anti-SPAM XMPP solution > is to > involve regular/polite XMPP users in any way. I have my dou

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-12-03 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 12/2/09 2:35 PM, Adam Seabrook wrote: > I have not been reading all of this thread so I apologise if this has > already been raised. Why not just set up something similar to > www.senderbase.org where we all report the number of messages received > from each server and each account. Any server o

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-12-02 Thread Adam Seabrook
I have not been reading all of this thread so I apologise if this has already been raised. Why not just set up something similar to www.senderbase.org where we all report the number of messages received from each server and each account. Any server or account that has an uncharacteristic in

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-12-02 Thread Jesse Thompson
Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 11/25/09 11:53 AM, Jesse Thompson wrote: Peter Saint-Andre wrote: I think that the key for the 'right/best' anti-SPAM XMPP solution is to involve regular/polite XMPP users in any way. I have my doubts that normal users will bother to flag messages as spam. However,

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-12-02 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 11/25/09 11:53 AM, Jesse Thompson wrote: > Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >>> I think that the key for the 'right/best' anti-SPAM XMPP solution is to >>> involve regular/polite XMPP users in any way. >> >> I have my doubts that normal users will bother to flag messages as spam. >> However, given that

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-12-02 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 11/25/09 11:18 AM, Jesse Thompson wrote: > Philipp Hancke wrote: >> Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >>> As I always say, we don't need to be perfect, just more difficult to >>> attack than other networks. Part of raising the cost (mostly the cost in >>> time) would involve requiring TLS with CA-issued

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-11-25 Thread Jesse Thompson
Peter Saint-Andre wrote: I think that the key for the 'right/best' anti-SPAM XMPP solution is to involve regular/polite XMPP users in any way. I have my doubts that normal users will bother to flag messages as spam. However, given that I have only ever received a few spam messages over XMPP (an

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-11-25 Thread Jesse Thompson
Philipp Hancke wrote: Peter Saint-Andre wrote: As I always say, we don't need to be perfect, just more difficult to attack than other networks. Part of raising the cost (mostly the cost in time) would involve requiring TLS with CA-issued certificates for s2s (perhaps we can get there eventually!

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-11-23 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 11/21/09 8:41 AM, Philipp Hancke wrote: > I doubt that requiring a certificate will ever work for such reasons. > The main problem is keeping "open federation" while maximizing security. > > By taking those "bogus" certificates out of the equation, we could > increase the number of cases where

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-11-21 Thread Philipp Hancke
Dave Cridland wrote: On Sat Nov 21 12:07:33 2009, Philipp Hancke wrote: Peter Saint-Andre wrote: As I always say, we don't need to be perfect, just more difficult to attack than other networks. Part of raising the cost (mostly the cost in time) would involve requiring TLS with CA-issued certifi

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-11-21 Thread Dave Cridland
On Sat Nov 21 12:07:33 2009, Philipp Hancke wrote: Peter Saint-Andre wrote: As I always say, we don't need to be perfect, just more difficult to attack than other networks. Part of raising the cost (mostly the cost in time) would involve requiring TLS with CA-issued certificates for s2s (pe

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-11-21 Thread Philipp Hancke
Peter Saint-Andre wrote: As I always say, we don't need to be perfect, just more difficult to attack than other networks. Part of raising the cost (mostly the cost in time) would involve requiring TLS with CA-issued certificates for s2s (perhaps we can get there eventually!). But as you say there

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 11/18/09 5:22 PM, Peter Viskup wrote: > Hi all, > I just went trough the discussions 'How is XMPP better than SMTP for > spam prevention?' [1] and fresh 'DNSBLs' [2] and was little bit thinking > about the fighting against SPAM accounts. > I have one - probably not bad/well - opinion: >- def

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 11/18/09 6:40 PM, Sean Dilda wrote: > I like the sound of this. But its worth remembering that this is only > one piece of the puzzle. Your solution makes the assumption that > everyone who runs an XMPP server is benevolent. Unfortunately, that's > not something we can assume. As such, a mul

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 11/19/09 4:49 AM, Kevin Smith wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Peter Viskup wrote: >> Anyway - I am still not convinced SPAM in XMPP is real. >> Does anybody have real experience with SPAM in XMPP network? > > Yes, jabber.org has seen some spam-like attacks. Most of the spam we've se

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Viskup
I spent some time to went through some pages: XMPP Anti Abuse Initiative - Meeting [1] XAAI homepage [2] Jabber.org Restrictions [3] and now I understand it little bit better ;-) [1] http://im.flosoft.biz/muclogs/x...@conference.im.flosoft.biz/2008/05/05.html [2] https://support.process-one.net/

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-11-19 Thread Kevin Smith
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Peter Viskup wrote: > Anyway - I am still not convinced SPAM in XMPP is real. > Does anybody have real experience with SPAM in XMPP network? Yes, jabber.org has seen some spam-like attacks. /K

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Viskup
Anyway - I am still not convinced SPAM in XMPP is real. Does anybody have real experience with SPAM in XMPP network? I know about SPAM from 'transported' IM's (e.g. ICQ), but this is not an issue of XMPP and should not be handled by XMPP servers. On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Peter Viskup wrot

Re: [Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-11-18 Thread Sean Dilda
I like the sound of this. But its worth remembering that this is only one piece of the puzzle. Your solution makes the assumption that everyone who runs an XMPP server is benevolent. Unfortunately, that's not something we can assume. As such, a multi-pronged approach is needed. Something

[Operators] How-to fight with SPAM accounts

2009-11-18 Thread Peter Viskup
Hi all, I just went trough the discussions 'How is XMPP better than SMTP for spam prevention?' [1] and fresh 'DNSBLs' [2] and was little bit thinking about the fighting against SPAM accounts. I have one - probably not bad/well - opinion: - define XEP in this way (sorry for any not well forme