BlackFrog to Take up BlueFrog's Flag

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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Re:Excuse me, but

[Billosaur]

isn't this really good botnet vs bad botnet?

More like Autobots vs Decepticons, but in the end it's the same thing. The "good" forces won't be a botnet per se, but a loosely aligned group of people doing the same thing, taking on a group with coordinated resources capable of wreaking terrible havok. It's vigilantism to be sure, but until the government of the world actually get their heads out of their butts and come up with a unified and mutually beneficial set of laws to deal with spammers wherever they live, this is the only tool anyone has to even try and slow the spammers down.