Re: (phishing use case?) eBay Registration Suspension

* Phil Archer <phil.archer@icra.org> [2005-01-06 14:17-0000]
> 
> The idea of adding a label to "legitimate" bulk e-mail has often been 
> talked about, notably at the Direct Marketing Association. I _believe_ 
> they're instinctively against it, however, are seeing it as inevitable. 

A label that couldn't be copied by sleazier spammers? 

> But, that's very much hearsay and we'd need to ask them and others for 
> their opinion. That would be within scope of the work ECP.NL is about to 
> lead on the policy research side for WP2 (kick off next week in Barcelona). 
> The same hearsay by the way tells me that Trust UK is now based at the DMA 
> - we need to make some contact there when we have more to say.
> 
> Since we're building a platform that can carry any metadata about a group 
> of resources and include within that methods by which machines can take 
> steps to add trust to the metadata/label, then I'd say it's very much in 
> scope. The EU funding, however, is explicitly not for filtering projects.

Interesting. I wasn't thinking of it for filtering, rather as something 
like a 'browser helper' sidebar, pointing out if the site or page had 
been annotated as being a fake/fraud/etc by various parties. 

Dan

Received on Thursday, 6 January 2005 14:27:26 UTC