BlackFrog to Take up BlueFrog's Flag 178
Runefox writes "ZDNet UK has a story about a new SPAM defense mechanism called BlackFrog, a response to the demise of Blue Security's BlueFrog. According to the article, the new service is based on a P2P network of clients, called the 'Frognet', which allows the opt-out service to continue functioning even after a server has gone down, making a DDoS attack like that which crippled BlueFrog ineffective against the new service."
Spamming the spammers? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Poisonous frogs? (Score:3, Funny)
Aahhh...the old security throught obscurity trick, eh? Should work as well as the cone of silence.
Re:OMG vigilantes (Score:5, Funny)
I am holding out for CrunchyFrog. (Score:3, Funny)
CrunchyFrog explined. http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/crunchy.ht
Re:Once you go black, you never go back. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Once you go black, you never go back. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:OMG vigilantes (Score:3, Funny)
Re:OMG vigilantes (Score:2, Funny)
One "slow" tier would be for all the people who actually reply to spam (thus giving the spammers money) or get their computers infected with bots and fail to clean them.
The other "fast" tier would be for poeple who know better than to click on everything in their email box and instead delete the spam / trojans.
Re:What Do We Really Want? (Score:3, Funny)
a) Freezing them with fire retardant foam
b) Hack off a few appendages with an axe
c) Drowning
d) All of the above in that order
I think any one will do. Why be picky?
Re:Once you go black, you never go back. (Score:3, Funny)
*now* you tell me, after I posted my ignorance on slashdot for all to see. Geeks around the world are openly laughing at me, secretly thankful that they didn't post earlier