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... "In fact, an ARC chain can be counterfeited,[3] so ARC processing applies when receivers trust the good faith of ARC signers, but not so much their filtering practices."

Hmm, article references an e-mail post by good old John Levine, moderator of comp.compilers for over 30 years, who has some interesting things to say:

"[If] I were a certain kind of bad guy, I would take the two seal ARC chain from a message from a virtuous sender, replace the message body and >From and Subject line with my spam, add a fresh new i=3 seal and blast it out. That ARC chain is 100% valid, even though the messsage is spam."

parent kazinator 4 years ago

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