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Caller ID for Email?
Jack Germain of Newsfactor.com wrote an interesting article on Monday about a system that is in development to prevent email spoofing. The problem is, he gets a key point wrong. Emphasis mine.
When the telephone rings, most people check the caller ID window before answering. If they see the name or phone number of a family member, friend, or business associate, the conversation begins without fear or inconvenience
The telephone equipment cannot be tricked. Even when the caller ID window displays “out of area” or “name blocked” messages, telephone users do not have to worry about risking their identity or placing personal information at risk if they decline to answer.
But this is not the case with e-mail. Malefactors can easily spoof the sender’s address to trick the recipient into opening the message. Tricksters often make the subject line so inviting that the user cannot wait to click on a message that, once opened, might contain harmful computer code that installs ID-sniffing components or makes the computer susceptible to more unwanted e-mails, otherwise known as spam.
Mr. Germain should do a little Googling before he writes his next article on technology. :-)
http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2005/10/26/caller-id-for-email/trackback/
