On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Dave CROCKER <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 12/8/2010 8:36 PM, Mark Delany wrote: >> Forgive me for a bit of an aside, sortof. >> >> A lot of people have long used the Postal Service analogy of being >> able to supply an arbitrary return address as a justification for >> doing the same in email (DC I'm looking at you, buddy). >> >> So did anyone catch the news today that UPS.com are planning to verify >> the return address of a package against your drivers license? And that >> other "postal" services may soon follow suit? >> >> In other words, the days of providing an unauthenticated "author >> address" may be numbered in the physical world. >> >> It's all in the name of security theater of course, but nonetheless, >> somewhat amusing in the DKIM context. > > > Right. No one will ever again be allowed to drop mail packages into a postal > slot, because each piece of mail is going to have to have its return address > "verified"... (exercise to the reader: why do I have verified in quotation > marks?) > > So, as you note, the fun orientation towards security theatre makes this > announcement no surprise, but serious enforcement of it will... > > We don't validate the contents of all shipping containers coming into the US, > but we /are/ going to verify the return address of all postal mail. > > Sounds like just the right priorities to me...
The two of you made my night, no, week, no Year!!! Mark, [email protected]? Did you forge that? (to lazy to look at headers tonight) -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
