Revisiting Spam Vigilantes
I touched on this BLUE FROG service in a blog item in July of 2005 and they are back in the news again… “Anti-spam service shut down”
It seems that BLUE SECURITY (the Blue Frog folks) advocate running a “Denial-of-Service” (DoS) attack on spammer web to clog, slow and eventually shut them down.
So how did spammers view this problem and solve it? Well I quote from the news item… “spammers began threatening users and rendering the [BLUE SECURITY] site inaccessible”
Seems like the “DoS” approach has escalated to something more.
As I like to do, let's read between the lines...
- Forget vigilantism. It mostly leads to the other side getting a bigger stick. Then you need a bigger stick, etc. etc.
- Forget CAN-SPAM or any of its cousins now in place in countries around the world. Spam and certainly international spam volumes are on the increase.
- Spamming is still a cash cow. Apparently, so much in fact that the need for retaliation to an anti-spammers “vigilante” approach has brought this reaction.
So folks, can the vigilantism, view legislation with a skeptical eye and protect your own mail servers through good software and good email policies.
AAS
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