SpamSlayer - should we DDOS spammers?

pointbeing writes "Just read this article about a company called Blue Security that essentially floods a spammer's website with requests to unsubscribe members - we're talking thousands of requests per day - the company's CEO says that fighting back by "inducing loss" against spammers is the only way to eventually stop them. Although I hate spam as much as the next guy, is participating in a DDOS attack the way to bring spammers to their knees? If it's okay in this instance, it it okay to DDOS the next guy who does something we don't like? "

Comments

Re:Hate to break it to you, but

[Nethershaw]

We could even have a plugin in firefox that would warn or block a site that was known to have used spam.

What, you mean Outfoxed?

Re:I remember when this debate started

[Mister Transistor]

Interestingly, look how well that approach worked in Iraq. We chose action #1 here in the USA. Sometimes I think we chose wrong, too.