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Solar-powered Mesh Project Helps Find New Frog
News A solar-powered wireless mesh network in the Amazon rainforest has played a part in the discovery of a new species of frog. The frog, currently nicknamed Yachanita, was discovered last month on a field station, which was connected by mesh to the...
[October 6, 2006, 15:35]
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 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 >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 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]
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 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 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 "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 Best of luck to the avenging amphibians.
[May 26, 2006, 17:43]
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]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Spiral Frog. Spiral Frog," says the voice. It's Joanne at BBC News 24, there's a new music download service called Spiral Frog, it's free to the user and supported by advertising. Some digging later, and the Spiral Frog lies dissected in front of me.
[September 1, 2006, 20:30]
Blue Security Attack Linked To Blog Crashes
News Blue Security distributes a tool called Blue Frog to flood companies sending spam with complaints -- one for every piece of spam received. Blue Security was unavailable for comment at the time of writing, but its blog posting vowed Blue Frog would...
[May 4, 2006, 18:00]
Yahoo! Reinvents Instant Messaging For Windows Vista
White Papers Working with frog design, Yahoo! is creating an entirely new and visually stunning instant messaging client for Windows Vista. The new Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista is based on Windows Presentation Foundation.
[May 22, 2007, 0:00]
Bulldog Users Bite Back Over Poor Service
Talkback Hot Dog, jumpin' frog, mines a tirkey. About time someone spill'd the beans on this lot. Wot a bunch of duff tossa's!
[October 4, 2006, 0:37]
Fighting Microsoft's Licence Check
Talkback How to boil a frog? Slowly but surely. Microsoft should get though and quick about where they really want to end up. Thus making their entire message clear beforehand. This one step forward, two steps back approach isn't really helping anyone.
[June 21, 2006, 23:34]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog When I was very small (oh, OK, when I was smaller than I am now but still the same shape), I didn't give a flying frog for computers. Then I wandered into WH Smith in Plymouth one day, and wondered why the shop was absolutely packed with people not...
[January 16, 1999, 6:28]
Free Broadband Modems For Sky Subscribers
News Sky Digital customers who sign up for BT's "no-frills" broadband package will get their Alcatel "Green Frog" DSL modem for free, under an agreement announced on Thursday. The special offer, which is available to subscribers to Sky digital's Sky...
[October 17, 2002, 11:34]
