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BlackFrog to Take up BlueFrog's Flag

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the internet-routes-around-stupidity dept.

Runefox writes "ZDNet UK has a story about a new SPAM defense mechanism called BlackFrog, a response to the demise of Blue Security's BlueFrog. According to the article, the new service is based on a P2P network of clients, called the 'Frognet', which allows the opt-out service to continue functioning even after a server has gone down, making a DDoS attack like that which crippled BlueFrog ineffective against the new service."

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  1. Spamming the spammers? by ScouseMouse · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hmm, wont it be amusing for user's PCs to be spamming as part of an hidden botnet and running this at the same time. Hope their not on dialup.

  2. Re:Poisonous frogs? by iminplaya · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...Okopipi's staff will not disclose information about its servers.

    Aahhh...the old security throught obscurity trick, eh? Should work as well as the cone of silence.

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  3. Re:OMG vigilantes by joe+155 · · Score: 5, Funny

    couldn't we just send the spammers a sony music cd? That rootkit would take out their computers at the source instead of just spamming them

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    *''I can't believe it's not a hyperlink.''
  4. I am holding out for CrunchyFrog. by 1_brown_mouse · · Score: 3, Funny

    Every spammer gets a "Spring Surprise."

    CrunchyFrog explined. http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/crunchy.htm

  5. Re:Once you go black, you never go back. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I suppose the phrase "Once you go Okopipi, you never go back" just doesn't have the same ring to it, does it?

  6. Re:Once you go black, you never go back. by Thwomp · · Score: 3, Funny

    No doubt it's a name inspired from the Nintendo school of marketing.

  7. Re:OMG vigilantes by op12 · · Score: 2, Funny

    If it's a recent Sony music CD, you're going to have a hard time convincing them to put it in their computers as they'll likely be thinking, "Why do I want to listen to this garbage?"

  8. Re:OMG vigilantes by whyrat · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think we should solve this with a two tier internet!

    One "slow" tier would be for all the people who actually reply to spam (thus giving the spammers money) or get their computers infected with bots and fail to clean them.

    The other "fast" tier would be for poeple who know better than to click on everything in their email box and instead delete the spam / trojans.

  9. Re:What Do We Really Want? by shokk · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm confused. Which are you advocating?
    a) Freezing them with fire retardant foam
    b) Hack off a few appendages with an axe
    c) Drowning
    d) All of the above in that order

    I think any one will do. Why be picky?

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    "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."
  10. Re:Once you go black, you never go back. by gbjbaanb · · Score: 2, Funny

    an Okopipi is a poisonous blue frog.

    *now* you tell me, after I posted my ignorance on slashdot for all to see. Geeks around the world are openly laughing at me, secretly thankful that they didn't post earlier :-)