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."

Comments

well, speaking from experience

[rucs_hack]

I've been using ODF for spreadsheets and a novel for some time now. The novel has over 400 pages, and I haven't noticed any difference since I switched from the word doc format to ODF, well, other then really liking ODF as a format to work with.

Well, except that I no longer have to worry about only being able to edit my document safely in one editor, on one platform, that's a pretty big issue for me, huge even.

There's no way I'll ever use a microsoft editor again, just because I know they'll never willingly support other formats for the good of the consumer. Ok they *may* add support for ODF, but they wouldn't have if Mass' hadn't pushed them into a corner. That attitude is worrying, it speaks volumes about their trustworthyness. I wouldn't put it past them to somehow add an extension which meant my previously cross platform document 'accidentally' wasn't quite so cross platform/editor any more.

Hormel won't like it...

[jacksonj04]

Minor point here, but SPAM (All caps) is the foodstuff. Spam (Not all caps) is the bloody awful mountain of email we all recieve every morning.

I thought we knew better than that.