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> I wonder what the underlying problem is. The underlying problem is that a sufficiently motivated spammer can target tens or hundreds of millions of people wi
by PragmaticPulp 4y ago
> I wonder what the underlying problem is.
The underlying problem is that a sufficiently motivated spammer can target tens or hundreds of millions of people with their spam without too much effort.
As a result, every possible scam and spam with even the slightest possibility of converting 0.00001% of recipients can now be a viable spam campaign.
The underlying problem is that it’s so easy to scale spam to a lot of targets.
- bornfreddy 4y agoYup. Just requesting the sender to solve some riddle (and waste their energy in process) would turn the tables completely because the cost of sending would be non-zero. Unfortunately it would also mean that we would be sacrificing our planet again. But maybe the difficulty of the challenge could adapt according to some trust score?