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Setting up fake Facebook accounts is trivial. Sure, not as easy, perhaps, as some of the spammier email providers. But if the domain gets that much good karma
by ErrantX 16y ago
Setting up fake Facebook accounts is trivial.
Sure, not as easy, perhaps, as some of the spammier email providers. But if the domain gets that much good karma it would be worth the effort...
- swombat 16y ago1) Facebook can build a simple API which, given an email, tells you the trust rating of that person. "To sign up to this service you need a Facebook trust rating of 10 or more" <- no spammers on the service. 2) Emails from facebook can include the trust rating too. How to get the trust rating? That's exactly what social networks are: networks of trust. Pick some obvious trustworthy nodes to start, expand from there with diminishing trust as you get further away, increasing trust the more connections there are to someone who's trustworthy, and so on... there's probably a zillion great algorithms to calculate this. Solving the problem of trust would basically solve the problem of identity, since identity (in real life as well as online) is a product of a trust network.
- ErrantX 16y ago> Facebook can build a simple API which, given an email, tells you the trust rating of that person. That's, in general, a really good idea. Trouble is; it is something that Google could trivially offer as well (in fact, they have even more metric data to work with). And the bigger problem is that you'd need to introduce it as a global standard so that email servers and clients would recognize it. > Emails from facebook can include the trust rating too. Sadly, that's easily spoofed :) The problem of trust online is the fundamental "flaw" in the internet (and the reason spam can exist in such a massive form). The person that solves this in a manageable and global way will be printing money.
- chopsueyar 16y agoMake it one step better. Noboy can email an @facebook address without paying a registration fee. Same for receiving...
- moultano 16y agoMake a fake profile with an image of a hot girl. Send out friend requests to random men. Done. This is not hard to automate.
- philfreo 16y agoActually - it's not. To interact with other users in a significant way they have CAPTCHAS to fill out - unless you confirm your account via a mobile phone SMS (which can only be used 1-to-1).