DudeMiester
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http://www.bluesecurity.com/announcements/pm_attack_timeline.asp
Full info there, but the site is a bit slow due to the DDoS attacks. The Spammer "PharmaMaster" claims to have down 9000 servers in the attack and compromised at least one internet backbone. He claims to have operatives in major ISPs to do this. In fact, he downed all of Six Apart (TypePad, Live Journal, etc..) and the Tucows DNS in the process, so obviously he's serious. Anyways, as a result I dled the product he's attacking, and maybe you might want to as well. Better yet, if someone could find out who this guy is and teach him a lesson in respect, if you know what I mean.
Other corroberating souces:
http://www.sixapart.com/typepad/news/2006/05/typepad_update_1.html
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31434
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6068607.html
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/05/05/spam/index.php?lsrc=mwrss
http://www.bloggernews.net/2006/05/blue-security-anti-spam-community.html
http://www.loosewireblog.com/2006/05/the_blue_frog_v.html
etc...
Also, some say that Blue Frog is just as bad as the spammers, however this isn't the case. What it does is send an opt-out email to the spam sponser when you recieve a spam advertising their services. Moreover, it only does this some of the time, and only after multiple corroborating sources confirm the spam activitiy. This is entirely fair, since every person has the right to send an opt-out for every spam they recieve. If it DDoSes the spammer's servers, well then that's their own fault for sending so much spam. Of course, spammers don't like this, because it scares people off from using their services and damages their spam networks. This is the basis for the attack. But like I was saying, spam is unrequested, undesired and wrong, on the other hand these opt-outs are requested by virtue of a spam being sent.
One other thing, no doubt spammers are targeting accounts signed up for this service with spam, so don't use this on account that is relatively free of spam. It's spam filters would be useless there anyways. In my case, I've got it running on an account that gets about 40 spams a day already, so no big deal if it doubles. I only use the address for MSN and forum registrations.
Full info there, but the site is a bit slow due to the DDoS attacks. The Spammer "PharmaMaster" claims to have down 9000 servers in the attack and compromised at least one internet backbone. He claims to have operatives in major ISPs to do this. In fact, he downed all of Six Apart (TypePad, Live Journal, etc..) and the Tucows DNS in the process, so obviously he's serious. Anyways, as a result I dled the product he's attacking, and maybe you might want to as well. Better yet, if someone could find out who this guy is and teach him a lesson in respect, if you know what I mean.
Other corroberating souces:
http://www.sixapart.com/typepad/news/2006/05/typepad_update_1.html
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31434
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6068607.html
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/05/05/spam/index.php?lsrc=mwrss
http://www.bloggernews.net/2006/05/blue-security-anti-spam-community.html
http://www.loosewireblog.com/2006/05/the_blue_frog_v.html
etc...
Also, some say that Blue Frog is just as bad as the spammers, however this isn't the case. What it does is send an opt-out email to the spam sponser when you recieve a spam advertising their services. Moreover, it only does this some of the time, and only after multiple corroborating sources confirm the spam activitiy. This is entirely fair, since every person has the right to send an opt-out for every spam they recieve. If it DDoSes the spammer's servers, well then that's their own fault for sending so much spam. Of course, spammers don't like this, because it scares people off from using their services and damages their spam networks. This is the basis for the attack. But like I was saying, spam is unrequested, undesired and wrong, on the other hand these opt-outs are requested by virtue of a spam being sent.
One other thing, no doubt spammers are targeting accounts signed up for this service with spam, so don't use this on account that is relatively free of spam. It's spam filters would be useless there anyways. In my case, I've got it running on an account that gets about 40 spams a day already, so no big deal if it doubles. I only use the address for MSN and forum registrations.
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