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mikeryan on June 18, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Thoughts on the Posterous hack

This seems mostly security by obscurity.

If spammers already have a list of "valid" email addresses, how long before they start randomly hitting post@postereous.com with spoofed headers on a regular basis?

rantfoil on June 18, 2010 [–]

That's a war we will fight when we have to. And we will fight it with relish and aplomb.

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