Cuz this is some real honeypot-lookin stuff right here and makes me question if they're deeply unserious about cybersecurity and protecting their members.
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Yes but that's much more difficult to do and easier to respond to.
If what you want is a throwaway email to do malicious shit with, it's very easy to get those.
Again, getting a different IP is much easier and harder to block.
Throw away email providers also have low reputation and might already be blocked by the victims email provider.
Reminder that this is %100 a game about making it more difficult. Simply knowing how to send an SMTP request from the command line is a sufficient obstacle to most hooligans.
That's a very good point. Most people out there are unlikely to have any clue how to use a command line. Those who do generally have better things to do than maliciously waste others' resources for amusement or out of political anger at fringe parties. (Because let's be honest, in the West, socialists are generally fringe parties.)
msmtpcan be used to easily script SMTP calls, and the malicious actor can keep getting aliases until their account gets banned, although getting a new alias probably is more challenging than getting a new IP address.This isn't really challenging my point. Someone juvenile enough to use this sort of attack isn't going to know about the
msmtpcommand or how to set an email alias. They didn't even know how to change their IP when they attacked my org.