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SMTP has no authentication, authorization, or encryption built in. GSM and the verizon standard do. SMTP abuse is entirely down to you being able to fire and forget a message without any sort of acceptance criteria for downstream systems.

Anyone abusing the mobile network runs the risk of their provider pulling the plug and disabling their access.



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