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IBM Unveils Anti-Spam Services to Stop Spammers
bblazer writes "CNN Money is running a story about a new IBM service that spams the spammers. The idea behind the technology is that when a spam email is received, it is immediately sent back to the originating computer - not an email account. From the article, ""We're doing it to shut this guy down," Stuart McIrvine, IBM's director of corporate security strategy, told the paper. "Every time he tries to send, he gets slammed again."""
The networks of zombie PCs are going to be even more lagged by IBM. Maybe this will finally get their owners to patch or firewall them.
You're right on the money.
I went through chemo and radiation last year. The idea of chemo is that it kills cancerous cells, but it's completely untargetted, so you end up poisoning the whole body.
Without the chemo, I'd likely be dead now. I traded a few months of extreme weakness in exchange for near perfect health now.
Eliminate RSS from the mix, and essentially you are talking about something similar to IM2000.
http://cr.yp.to/im2000.html
The basic idea is to reverse the concept of how mail is handled today. If you want to send an email, you store it on your site until someone comes and picks it up from you. It is never delivered, all mail must be picked up. Instead of pulling your mail from a single Inbox, you pull your incoming mail from hundreds of repositories, depending on who is mailing you.
One advantage is that if someone wants to send out a million emails, it is up to THEM to store it, not you. Blacklisting becomes easier, as does whitelisting, etc.
And for you whiners who love bitching about how Dan Bernstein is behind it so it MUST be bad, please don't bother. That horse has been beaten to death hundreds of times before.