ceocio
join:2004-04-16
Columbus, OH
| another idea to spam spammers
So I was thinking....
How about lettng users DOS attack the specific spammers that spammed us? A program that we can install and add spammers to the blacklist, so we can do collective spamming back to these suckers. I would be willing to pay an annual subscription in order to revenge these suckers that spam my mailboxes. With enough users download the program, we can contribute to the cause of stopping spammers for good. Any one/company up to the challenge? |
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Combat Chuck
Too Many Cannibals
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join:2001-11-29
Erie, PA
1 edit | The only "cause" you'll advance is that of more laws to protect spammers from vigilantes who decide that the ends justify the means.
And don't forget the horrible damage done when every numbnut who wants to DOS a site now has even easier access to the software to do so; no more wading thru the Haxxorz sites.
Spam is here to stay, theres nothing you can do to stop it without making it worse for legitimate users. The best thing you can do is use filters to make it easy to ignore it; the more attention paid to spammers the more they win.
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ceocio
join:2004-04-16
Columbus, OH
| I wouldnt worry about that. The program should be able to distinguish real spammers and only attck these. The local blacklist can be compared against that of in the central database to determine if there are enough requests to justify the attack..The central server can then authorize the client to iniate such an attack.
said by Combat Chuck  :And don't forget the horrible damage done when every numbnut who wants to DOS a site now has even easier access to the software to do so; no more wading thru the Haxxorz sites. |
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Combat Chuck
Too Many Cannibals
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join:2001-11-29
Erie, PA
| So whoever get most votes gets DOS'd?
Or does one person decide?
What if you don't agree with that person?
Do you really want to travel down the road of coordinated attacks against those who a certain group, in their own opinion, decides are detrimental to the net? I've seen the violently anti-spam community work. I do not want that group of self righteous, power hungry, egomaniacs deciding what is "good" and what is "bad" because once they eliminate the "bad" they will move the line so they can continue their quest to feel important.
And the spammers will work around it everyone else will suffer under it.
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mrchris
We don't miss you Bush
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join:2002-10-01
North Babylon, NY
1 edit | reply to ceocio
Here's a way to suck up bandwidth of fake bank sites: »www.aa419.org/ladvampire.html |
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UnKown
The Underground Network
join:2002-09-08
Orlando, FL | reply to ceocio
wait until the spammers redirect there dns to fbi.gov now your ddosing a goverment web site, and now your federally f*ck3d |
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ceocio
join:2004-04-16
Columbus, OH | yeah right, like they're gonna change their ip to fbi. |
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devrandom
I got a pot, full of random stuff here
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join:2003-06-28
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I'm sure Lycos is watching all of this very carefully. When you wield great power, you have to wield great care.
Especially with all of this stuff going around about how criminal this is (whether it is or not is determined by the person).
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JPCass
join:2001-01-23
Denver, CO
| reply to Combat Chuck
said by Combat Chuck :So whoever get most votes gets DOS'd? Or does one person decide? What if you don't agree with that person? How about a simple tool that does something like allow many individual users to generate a single (anonymized) hit to the URLs in spam that they personally receive? Multiply that by all the people who get spam, and the merchants ultimately sponsoring the spam would have to bear a burden of traffic more in proportion to what they subject others. |
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