Does CentMail have an adverse selection problem, in essence “over-solving” the spam problem and encouraging users to purposefully present themselves as spam bait?
That is a more serious problem for economic approaches that pay the recipients of spam. CentMail minimizes this concern by leaving the choice of charity to the senders. • Is CentMail vulnerable to spammers who have zombie networks at their disposal? Zombie networks typically rely on being able to compromise computers undetected, to relay spam as a background process. With CentMail they would have to not only execute code on their host machines but steal users’ CentMail credentials and deplete their balances. This type of attack is harder for spammers and, since CentMail generates an audit trail of stamp requests, more easily detectable. See also Question 16.
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