IBM Believes In Spam For A Spam Vigilante Revenge
from the denial-of-service,-anyone? dept
It seems that larger companies are really getting pissed off at spammers these days. While going out and attacking spammers used to be more limited to net.vigilantes, some well known companies have been taking stronger approaches to fighting spam lately. A few months back there was Lycos' plan to let anyone download a screensaver that would launch distributed denial of service attacks on spammers. While Lycos claimed it wouldn't take anyone offline, it wasn't long before that was proven false. Next up on the list is IBM, whose latest anti-spam offering will send data right back at spamming machines in an effort to slow them down. It's not quite a distributed denial of service attack -- it's more like a centralized one. It's sort of one step up beyond greylisting which just slows down the spam. Instead, this tries to slow down the computer sending the spam. Again, this leaves IBM open to charges of hitting back too hard -- especially if innocent sites get taken offline in the process. Still, when large companies like IBM start offering products like this, you know that people are getting fed up.
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bad writing Mike
Maybe you indended this Mike but it seems like you are saying greylisting just slows down the spam. Not sure if you mean "the next step from greylisting proposed by microsoft just slows down the spam", or greylisting doesnt work it just slows down the spam transmission, or that 'slowing' to you means "decreasing". Either way, I've found greylisting to be very effective against small spammers and offer it for my antispam service.
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Make Love Not Spam Reloaded
http://www.plaza1.net/SpammerSlapper
People are welcome to use this applet on their page as well. I want the code to be GPL.
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