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Story: Black Frog hops into spam battle

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>Blue Frog software, which automatically sent replies back to mass emails<

Actually, they attacked the landing page, usually the order form, filling in each line with the "opt-out text." Of course, on submit, the form - absent a valid credit card - would error out. Thus, it was a pretext for launching a DDoS.

My problems with Blue Frog were primarily based on the notion that fighting abuse with abuse is a very bad idea.
( http://tqmcube.com/abusive.php ) I also found that Blue Security was disingenuous. An analysis of some of the numbers is here: http://tqmcube.com/bluefrog.php

My problem with Okopipi is that it lacks proof of concept. Nobody really knows if Blue Frog was effective. There is a general acceptance that it must have been effective to have engendered a DDoS attack. That "logic" is spectacularly flawed.

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