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Re: If Lycos can attack spammer sites, can we all start doing it?
From: James Tucker <jftucker () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 19:40:20 +0000
I would feel very sorry for the small time ISP's being DoS'd off the planet by some of the potential "attack backs" that could be generated by such an idea. DoS wars are not a good way to fight spam. Judgement of the receivers total bandwidth capability is difficult to impossble to accurately judge (assuming that they oculd simply code modulated response delays in to throw off the attack scheme). Thus all that could result of this is DoS attacks, not a garunteed "slow down" as is described. It is not just volume to the site that will be generated either, remember you are loading up every router along the way. On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 02:37:48 +0000, n3td3v <xploitable () gmail com> wrote:
If Lycos EU is going to go legally unchallenged, can we all start attacking sites which send unsolicited mail to a non-lycos mailbox. As long as we can prove the mail is actually spam. This isn't as hard as you may imagine. All you need to do is for example, check Yahoo's or Gmail's spam folder, and the mails in that must hold some legal justification as being spam on Gmail or Yahoo (because Yahoo and Gmail use elite spam filters), making it justified as spam and therefore would give someone legal permission (because yahoo and gmail spam filters are pretty trustworthy) to attack the spammers site, which the spammed mail was trying to ask you to visit. One could even code a program to keep checking the Gmail or Yahoo spam folder for new spam to add to the attack list. As long as one doesn't make the spammers site unreachable, but if you slow it down, so it takes ages for legitimate users to browse it, it must be ok, because thats what Lycos EU is doing legally unchallenged. Could botnets actually become legal, as long as they only attack unsolicited mail, which Yahoo and Gmail and other non-lycos providers have marked as spam. The possibilities are endless. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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