A very relevant report on wifi being used to send spam. This is a perfect example of something we hope to prevent with this project. I'm still working on some preliminary documentation - so don't forget about us. Check back for updates frequently.

"These people simply drive up to a building armed with their pornographic email, log into the insecure wireless network, send the message to 10 million email addresses and then just drive away," said Wright.

A drive-by spammer would send spam by finding an unprotected SMTP port on a company's server and then sending email as if they were a legitimate user of the company's network. The mail server wouldn't be able to tell otherwise.

posted by mt at 10:12