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Blue Security Reborn As Social Action Enabler

Posted by kdawson on from the raining-holy-hellfire dept.

griswaldo writes "Wired News writes about the re-birth of the ill-fated Blue Security as a social action company. According to the article, founders of the former anti-spam company that made headlines after incurring the wrath of a Russian spam king have set up a company called Collactive that provides tools to organize grassroots action on political and social web sites. The article mentions a global warming initiative called WorldCoolers and, for the Slashdot YRO crowd, the Privacy Alert Network that kicked off by letting people comment on Homeland Security's latest crazy idea."

3 of 29 comments (clear)

  1. Finnaly, I can let the DHS know what I think by tricksy9 · · Score: 2, Informative

    The DHS, on a mission to turn the US into Communist China, has made it nearly impossible to submit comments to regulations.gov about their "Automated Targeting System". Alas, Collactive works like a charm and submits the comments with a push of a button. Power to people! Try it yourself at http://ws.privacyalertnetwork.net/points/point?id= 444

  2. Re:If you can't beat spam, add to it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're wrong about it being automated replies. Take a look at what people sent the DHS. These are serious, well-thought out comments. These people would have no way of doing this without this tool!

  3. Re:If you can't beat spam, add to it! by griswald9 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Have you actually seen what people wrote on the DHS issue? Take a look at the comments submitted - it's not automated (well, unless they have a bunch of intelligent monkeys doing the work)