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Denial-of-service attack on an email client

August 14th, 2010 Leave a comment Go to comments

Denial-of-service attack on an email client: “

I came to think about how spam-filters on mail clients work, and most of them use bayesian filters to catch the trend of spam an account receives (or maybe the opposite, a filter of whats not spam…)

So, would it be possible to teach the filter not to receive certain legitimate emails?

How? By spamming of course! Bayesian filters filters would quickly learn if such and such words appears in spam. Think of it as a Denial of Service on legitimate emails. Name your least favorite politican and add a good offer too good to be true (use the signature maybe?)

Any comments on this idea, am I hitting a dead end or could this actually be possible?

(Via Neworder.)

  1. r00tguru
    April 2nd, 2011 at 08:03 | #1

    I think that wouldn’t work very well…
    Because the most of these Spamfilters, searching through the Header and looking for some special header informations…

    Sry about my bad english :D