[hashcash] Lycos anti-spam DDoS proposal
- From: "John Honan" <jhonan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hashcash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:26:56 -0500 (EST)
Interesting, if slightly worrying, anti-spam strategy from Lycos UK;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1363480,00.html
Don't get mad with spammers. Get even
Owen Bowcott
Wednesday December 1, 2004
The Guardian
Spammers may be about to get a taste of their own medicine. A British
company is today launching software that it claims will allow computer
users to hit back at the mass mailers who clog up our inboxes with sales
pitches for pornography, get-rich-quick schemes and cheap medication.
Lycos UK is offering free screensavers designed to counter-attack the junk
emailers by turning their own techniques against them.
Entitled, somewhat confusingly, Make Love, Not Spam, the campaign aims to
harness the coordinated power of under-occupied computers and bombard
blacklisted sites with streams of email requests which will slow down
targeted addresses and interfere with their business.
.... See link for rest of article
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