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Blue Security Gives up the Fight

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the eggs-bacon-sausage-and-splat dept.

bblboy54 writes "According to The Washington Post, Blue Security has closed its doors, which can be confirmed by the Blue Security application failing to work today and their domain no longer resolving. Blue Security's CEO is quoted in the article: "It's clear to us that [quitting] would be the only thing to prevent a full-scale cyber-war that we just don't have the authority to start," Reshef said. "Our users never signed up for this kind of thing." You have to wonder where it goes from here. It seems an effective method has been found but more than a small private company could handle. Will someone else adapt this concept, or does the internet world give up?"

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  1. Re:The problem is it relies on a central server. by Dan+Ost · · Score: 5, Informative

    The problem would be how to make a distributed system that can't be poisoned or decieved by
    an attacker.

    One of the nice attributes of having a central server is that BlueSecurity could validate
    that the site was a legitimate target before unleashing the flurry of opt-out requests.

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    *sigh* back to work...
  2. Re:Third Choice? by grub · · Score: 5, Informative


    but anyone who's still getting spam in their inbox should install some nice filtering software.

    That's not the point. If you run your own mail server or rely on filtering at your client end the spam uses up your bandwidth, your storage, your CPU resources to filter it, etc. Spammers like to use zombie machines around the net. Their operations cost them very little as they steal the capability from everyone else.

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  3. Re:When the going gets tough... by pebs · · Score: 5, Informative

    What we need is to implement an open source p2p DOS network. Everybody can submit a link that they found in SPAM mail, with their DOS client. This way, the more a site is spamvertised, the more it is DOS-ed.
    Of course, the amount of DOS the site gets should be comparable with the bandwidth needed to send the spams, so there are no abuses of the system. Just send their crap back to the sites they run.

    That simply won't work because it will get exploited very easilly. I assume only links that have been submitted a large amount of times will get DDOSed. Someone will create a large amount of fake accounts on the P2P network, submit links to their target (or maybe spoof all the link submissions without needing to create fake accounts), and get a free DDOS network to attack whoever they want.

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