Spam War Takes Out Blog Services

munchola writes "Following on from the story about spammers attacking Blue Security's anti-spam system, CBR is reporting that Six Apart, which runs the popular LiveJournal and TypePad blogging services, has become a collateral victim. Six Apart told its millions of bloggers it had experienced 'intermittent and limited availability for TypePad, LiveJournal, TypeKey, sixapart.com, movabletype.org and movabletype.com', before resolving the issue in the early hours of Wednesday. '[The spammers are] trying to rip apart the internet just to make our community stop fighting back against spam,' Blue Security's chief executive Eran Reshef said, adding that he knows who's behind the attack."

Comments

Pistols at dawn.

[Anonymous Coward]

"'[The spammers are] trying to rip apart the internet just to make our community stop fighting back against spam,' Blue Security's chief executive Eran Reshef said, adding that he knows who's behind the attack.""

Too bad dueling is dead.

Two birds with one stone?

[3.5 stripes]

Taking out spammers and bloggers?

I can't see any down side to this, honestly.

Re:Two birds with one stone?

[dndfan]

Yes, you do. The amount of spam one gets is proportional to one's importance as an internet and email user. What will I do if I won't be able to show everyone my 300+ spam/day? ;)

Re:Is Blue Security going public with who's behind

[DaHat]

Agreed! I've got my pitchfork and torch right here... I dunno about you but I'm up for some mob rule and a lynching to take care of this mess.

Re:Is Blue Security going public with who's behind

[Anonymous Coward]

I guess we'll just have to figure out Blue's clues.

(Because we're really smart)

Re:Blame fest

[caluml]

And you didn't even link to the site so we could see if it was back up yet.

Re:Kill the spammers

[Slashcrap]

If you hate spam so much that you want to commit assault or murder you could just sign off, quit using email, etc.

Yes, quitting e-mail is a very realistic solution. And I suppose that if your home phone starts getting flooded by unwanted sales calls you should just stop using the phone?

And if someone starts flooding the emergency services with spam calls?

Basically, your solution to people deliberately abusing an essential service seems to be rolling over and letting them fuck you like a bitch.

I know you were just kidding, but some people aren't :(

I'm certainly not fucking kidding and I hope that makes you as sad as that fucking gay emoticon you used suggests.

Re:Backbone Subversion

[Alioth]

Why, a better implementation of "backbone CVS" of course!

Just not trying hard enough

[wiskers69]

I'm really disappointed in this mysterious top 4 spammer. I've been a member of blue security for somewhere around 4 months and I haven't recieved a single threatening email from him/her/it. I mean come on. I must have forwarded thousands and thousands of pieces spam to blue securtiy and yet he hasn't tried to black mail me once. Whats wrong with me? Maybe I'm just not trying hard enough, I only have 3 email addresses registered with the frog. OK mysterious spammer you've made your point. Only the best anti spammers get your attention so I will redouble my efforts and add add 6 new addressess to the protected registry. That will learn you to ignore me.

Re:Guilty of what?

[NitroWolf]

Don't be fucking pedantic. It's an analogy, buy a clue.

Redirecting a URL is not vandalism.

Re:Guilty of what?

[HTTP Error 403 403.9]

Don't be fucking pedantic. It's an analogy, buy a clue.

Redirecting a URL is not vandalism.
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Is it okay for Blue to redirect the next DDOS to communityhosting.net? I hear it is fast and reliable.

awright ... fess up...

[nblender]

I don't associate spammers with the sort of people who have brains. This means that the spammers are hiring brains (not that it takes much brainpower to write php but I digress)... The sort of brains they'd hire are probably slashdot geeks....

So which of you scumbags is responsible for this.