Re: Red Herring Profile: Blue Security Spams Spammers

[Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 10/30/05, Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk> wrote:
> Fergie wrote:
>
> > For what its worth:
> >
> > Interesting profile on Blue Security over on Red Herring:
>
> If I understand them right, these guys think that a few hundred
> thousand users, sending one request, once to a spammed address will
> somehow grossly inconvenience spamemrs to the point where the spammers
> will either give up or have to spend huge ammounts of money buying
> really chunky servers and network connectivity to be able to witstand
> the onslaught?
>
> They clearly have no clue about botnets...
>
> _ANY_ "anti-spam" method that depends on scale (be strike-back like
> this, or Billy's (once) favourite "Penny Black", etc, etc) defeating
> spammers is broken by botnets, as they already afford the spammers the
> supposedly prohibitive scale.
>
> So, aside from the valid concerns raised by other commentators in the
> article, we can add "utter cluelessness as to the actual nature of the
> problem" to the reasons Blue Frog is a worthless PoS "technology".
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick FitzGerald

Hrmm, I thought they were trying to punish those who hire spammers by
DoS'ing www.nakedteenviagraloans.com after ad's had been sent
promoting those sites.

I dont like the idea of adding additional load to the interweb. Blue
should have a Clue, or at least think it through.

Maybe they are just trying to speed up the inevitable government
regulation that will come when spamers take _all_ bandwidth

Still, no technology is completely bad. Maybe someday, someone will
use their code for good.

-JP
"10mb per attachment limit on free email accounts, hmm... I'll send
pr0n mpegs from my wireless distriubuted starbucks cluster to all
hotmail, yahoo and gmail addy's. Bwah ha ha ha"
- _not_ JP

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