There’s an interesting major Internet battle going on right now.<\/p>\n
There’s a company called Blue Security. (I won’t provide a link because they are down.) People can download their software (the Blue Frog) which sends emails to spammers whenever they receive a spam message. This overloads the spammers server, slowing them down or halting them. <\/p>\n
Several major spammers have cried “Uncle” and agreed to remove everybody who uses Blue Frog from their email list, but one evil entity has instead starting fighting back. He somehow figured out how to send multiple messages to many of the people who use Blue Frog, telling them that they were going to keep receiving these until they turned off the Frog. He also has brought the Blue Security web site down with a “DDOS” (Distributed Denial of Service) attack; basically forcing many diverse computers to overload the Blue Security site. Basically, what he is saying is “You must accept my spam. You cannot refuse it. If you try to refuse it, I will send you even more.”<\/p>\n
Blue Security has been down for a couple of days now. This guy is pretty sophisticated. <\/p>\n
You can read more about this here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Somehow, we have to take back the internet from the spammers and scammers. Perhaps this will be a wake-up call to do some long-needed modifications to email to make it more traceable and controllable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s an interesting major Internet battle going on right now. There’s a company called Blue Security. (I won’t provide a link because they are down.) People can download their software (the Blue Frog) which sends emails to spammers whenever they receive a spam message. This overloads the spammers server, slowing them down or halting them. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}