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Comment Re:Health implications (Score 1) 1317

by Frabjosity on Thursday July 21, 2005 @02:20AM (#13121518) Attached to: Riot Control Ray-Gun for Use in Iraq

I can see it now: "So we decided to use the ray gun on this group of rioting lab rats. Their lawyers sued us."

Journal Journal: Blue Frog Anti-Spam Initiative, Part III: Legal Questions

Journal by Frabjosity on Thursday July 21, 2005 @02:06AM

Bringing Spammers to Their Knees
Tom Spring, PC World
Monday, July 18, 2005
[Full story]

In addition to its apparent problems, this initiative has some aspects which may be potentially illegal:

*Distributed Denial of Service Attack

Journal Journal: Blue Frog Anti-Spam Initiative, Part II: Flawed Methodology

Journal by Frabjosity on Thursday July 21, 2005 @02:00AM

Bringing Spammers to Their Knees
Tom Spring, PC World
Monday, July 18, 2005
[Full story]

The following are some concerns I see as flaws in the program's makeup or rationale:

*Voluntary zombies

Journal Journal: Blue Frog Anti-Spam Initiative, Part I: Good Aspects

Journal by Frabjosity on Thursday July 21, 2005 @01:46AM

Bringing Spammers to Their Knees
Tom Spring, PC World
Monday, July 18, 2005
In a novel if potentially controversial effort to fight spam, a firm called Blue Security this week begins distributing the beta of a free program that, once installed on your PC, makes it part of a community that works to cripple Web sites run by spammers.

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