Black Frog Hops Into Spam Battle
News First there was Blue Frog, a community antispam effort that stopped operating last week after Blue Security, the company that started the project, came under a withering denial-of-service attack. Out of the ashes comes Black Frog, part of a project...
[May 25, 2006, 10:25]
Black Frog Hops Into Spam Battle
Talkback >Blue Frog software, which automatically sent replies back to mass emails< 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...
[May 28, 2006, 15:17]
Black Frog Hops Into Spam Battle
Talkback The Blue Frog software was NOT "designed to crash spammers' servers. Crashing is what the criminal spammers did in response to Blue Frog's legal and ethcial software. There is no plan for any software named Black Frog.
[May 26, 2006, 23:51]
Black Frog Hops Into Spam Battle
Talkback Opt-Out messages being called a form of DDOS regardless of how they are generated, as long as they still represent a 1 to 1 spam to opt-out message ratio is not an attack, but rather merely a blow for blow defense.
[May 26, 2006, 17:50]
Black Frog Hops Into Spam Battle
Talkback Best of luck to the avenging amphibians.
[May 26, 2006, 17:43]
Black Frog Hops Into Spam Battle
Talkback "Richi Jennings, an analyst at security research company Ferris, said any attempts by Okopipi to duplicate Blue Security's strategy of fighting fire with fire are misguided. Of course. The proper way to fight fire is with orbital bombardment.
[May 26, 2006, 16:15]
Black Frog Hops Into Spam Battle
Talkback Hi guys, Sorry for not adding that link to the Okopipi site earlier - thanks for flagging it up. Cheers Graeme
[May 26, 2006, 16:11]
Black Frog Hops Into Spam Battle
Talkback The idea behind Black Frog is to flood the spammers with so many fake requests that they can not tell ligitimate ones from fake, so they have to spend the time and energy (which equals money) to make their profits, which nor invalidates condition...
[May 26, 2006, 15:22]
Black Frog Hops Into Spam Battle
Talkback Here it is: http://wiki.okopipi.org/wiki/Main_Page
[May 26, 2006, 15:10]
Black Frog Hops Into Spam Battle
Talkback Gee, great article. No Url, No Web site. Nothing but a blurb. I guess Ziff Davis still thinks they are publishing on paper.
[May 26, 2006, 15:05]
