> Subject: Re: SA and Spear Phishing > From: guent...@rudersport.de > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:38:19 +0100 > > Oh, well, the freemail address again is mostly unrelated to discussions > on this list -- though yeah, while hiding behind that address is not a > show-stopper, using your real address (especially if you provide mail > services) might help gain some credibility. >
I think this is fair enough. Although I can't do masschecks, but it's reasonable and I would like SA to maintain its quality work. I'm sending this reply as text/plain (for compliance with old school manners), and dropped my interest to do nightly masschecks due to lack of trust my free mail can give. However, when it comes to my online activities, I'm a coward who wants to hide his identity. Yep, you heard it, a coward. It's just me, which is why I prefer to not disclose my employer or my full name. Obviously, we got a lot of heroes here, and I think having a coward in the collection would be a unique addition that will, somehow, contribute in reducing boredom in the list :D I think it's also related to cultural backgrounds on how much of freedom is assigned to an individual, which varies from country to country, and employer to another. It seems I'm restricted on this regards, I hope folks here understand. >From the bright side, I might be plain dump honest, which some of you might >consider as a good behavior, regardless of my freemail interface. But this is >all off-topic IMO. ## back on topic ## Anyway, I would highly appreciate any help on spear phishing. A solution, a guess, or just if you know whether you get spear phish at all is good information for me (I started to think that 99% of mail admins never know that they get spear phish because of the extremely high success rate of spear phish). PS: Spear Phishing is a problem that I noticed many commercial appliances struggle at. This thread is not meant to promote or demote SA, but to address a cutting-edge problem that many software classifiers fail to address. --H
