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Author Re: bnhny Attorney ****s: Incompetent, Weak, and a Cheater, Caught by California State
Zax

2005-05-24, 5:53 pm

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On 24 May 2005 16:29:46 -0000, Italy Anonymous Remailer wrote in
Message-Id: <NK6BC2C138496.7706712963@anonymous.poster>:

> You could always increase the bits needed for the hashcash token.
> This however would prevent slower computers using your mail2news
> gateway and would probably only slightly increase the flooder's
> inconvenience level. As they are automating the generation of the
> tokens and the posts I doubt they'd care if it took a few more
> hours to do it all.


Yes, unless I pushed it up to around 28bits it's not really that much of
an inconvenience. I'd rather avoid doing this as it 'spoils' the
service to some extent.

> I'm surprised that they've gone to all this trouble to use your
> mail2news gateway though. As there are gateways that don't require
> any hashcash you'd think it would be less work to use those
> instead.
>
> Maybe it's a protest against hashcash being required on certain
> gateways and remailers? An attack specifically designed to show
> that hashcash doesn't help at all?


Perhaps, although the poster seems to have a very specific target in
mind with his postings. Although why anyone thinks that flooding Usenet
with propaganda furthers their cause is a mystery to me.

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