One reason we will not be rid of spam anytime soon is that spam is very well suited to massively parallel mechanisms. The recent uptick in my spam (and everybody else's, I suspect) is due to the fact that more bots are being knit into botnets, and they're better bots. Even Port 25 blocking,
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Of course, I sincerely doubt it ever will work, since it would require a rather fundamental restructuring of how the Internet operates and would cut out huge numbers of servers that currently run on Apache on some form of UNIX/Linux. ISPs wouldn't put up with that, nor would large corporations. Their users might have to, though.
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What "trusted computing" really means is that I will no longer control the use of my own equipment and files. The primary beneficiary of all Microsoft's security efforts are to make sure that nobody steals Microsoft software. My need for a reliable computing platform is not even on the radar.
I do not use XP on a daily basis, and I don't intend to use Vista at all. By the time Windows 2000 becomes unusable I will long have migrated to the Mac or some as-yet-unknown flavor of desktop Unix.
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