Mail account brute force / harassment

[Marc Roos]

 >
 >> B. With 500GB dump
 >> - the owner of the attacking server (probably hacked) will notice it 

 >> will be forced to take action.
 >
 >Unlikely. What is very likely is that your ISP shuts you don for 
network abuse.

If you not block the request, but allow it, and redirect to a /dev/zero 
device that
generates 500GB of messages. How can I ever be accused of network abuse.

Since your logics is not correct on this, how can I assume anything you 
write 
is correct?


 >> If abuse clouds are smart (most are) they would notice that 
attacking 
 >> my servers, will result in the loss of abuse nodes, hence they will 
 >> not bother me anymore.
 >
 >Not at all the case.
 >
 >> If every one would apply strategy B, the abuse problem would get 
less. 
 >
 >No. The abuse problem wold be far worse.
 >



-----Original Message-----
From: @lbutlr via dovecot [mailto:dovecot at dovecot.org] 
Sent: donderdag 11 april 2019 19:11
To: Peter via dovecot
Subject: Re: Mail account brute force / harassment

On 11 Apr 2019, at 04:43, Marc Roos via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> 
wrote:
> B. With 500GB dump
> - the owner of the attacking server (probably hacked) will notice it 
> will be forced to take action.

Unlikely. What is very likely is that your ISP shuts you don for network 
abuse.

> If abuse clouds are smart (most are) they would notice that attacking 
> my servers, will result in the loss of abuse nodes, hence they will 
> not bother me anymore.

Not at all the case.

> If every one would apply strategy B, the abuse problem would get less. 


No. The abuse problem wold be far worse.


--
I thank my lucky stars I'm not superstitious.