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June 02, 2006
Blue Frog Shut Down?
We all know that Blue Frog is being targetted with DDOS attack for past many days. However a recent article in Washington Post suggests that Blue Frog may be closed forever.
For those who are not aware, Blue Frog was an innovative way of fighting spam. Blue Frog maintained a list of "do not spam" email list. If a spammer sent out email to any email id in this list, they would be bombared with opt-out emails.
However the list was encrypted. A spammer could submit one email id and see if it exists in the list but could not download the entire list. Recently, though, a spammer based in Russia, through the use of dictionary based attacks, was successful in downloading most of the email ids in that list.
The Spammer community then threatened to spam these email ids or worst, send virus, trojans and other malicious programs via email. After weeks of attack and counter-attack, Blue Frog finally decided to give up and shut shop. What a shame!
Posted by manish at 08:49 PM | Comments (0)