Isn't it easy to send an email and put whatever email we want as the sender? I was just wondering, does it means anyone could post on the post of someone else?
I've just created a posterous account at http://pmn.posterous.com
The email that I've authorized is paul@pmn.org
I've put one post on there, any other posts that appear are not from me.
(I should note, I use Posterous for some personal stuff and love the service. This isn't something I've been terribly concerned about yet.)
I've removed the extra one, so it should be back down to one.
What did you welcome email say?
I think they're going to end up just as safe as every other blogging service out there.
ATTENTION: We noticed you're sending this from a different
computer or location, so it won't get posted until we're
sure it's you. Please confirm that you sent this.
But how many people want to maliciously post to some random person's Posterous blog? Probably not too many.
They wouldn't necessarily even have to get you to click on a link. There have been numerous attacks against image processing libraries.
Maybe Smear Campaign artists might take to it. Or spammers...
Michael Arrington posted the results here: http://techcrunch.posterous.com/lots-of-fake-post-attempts-o...