The psychological impact of false positives

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"False positives, or the act of marking legitimate content as being malicious, are an unfortunate but unavoidable consequence of rapid response security technologies."

. . . and the absolutely absurd refusal to use proven security technologies like encryption and digital signatures for stuff like email.

Instead, they'd rather play around with their unproven statistical filters.

Digital signatures and encryption can drastically reduce the number of ham being mislabeled as spam, if widely adopted. And the more widespread the adoption, the more bulletproof it gets.

But nooooo, they have to make sorry excuses for not doing it, they can't agree on a standard, and they can't make the ISPs adopt any new standards, so we're all screwed.

Posted by: CobraA1   Posted on: 02/03/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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