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How do you spam on a whitelist-based system? Spammers simply... don't get followed...

• spion 4y ago
  Why the downvotes? Was my question difficult to understand? How does spam work on a social-media-like system where you have to wilfully follow someone to start getting their feed? Do you volontarily subscribe to receive spam?
  • Kalium 4y ago
    You are assuming integrity and good-faith participation of all systems involved. This is not a reasonable assumption in the context of service abuse. Account compromise and host compromise spring to mind as avenues for spam. All it would take is popping a poorly configured server and then spam can be injected into the feeds you've chosen to follow.
    • spion 4y ago
      There are miles between "account and server compromise" and the kind of things you get from email spam. > All it would take is popping a poorly configured server and then spam can be injected into the feeds you've chosen to follow. This is still way, way harder and more expensive than email spam. (Can be swiftly dealt with, after which you have to go compromise another server)
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