Re: Red Herring Profile: Blue Security Spams Spammers

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Fergie wrote:

> For what its worth:
>
> Interesting profile on Blue Security over on Red Herring:

If I understand them right, these guys think that a few hundred 
thousand users, sending one request, once to a spammed address will 
somehow grossly inconvenience spamemrs to the point where the spammers 
will either give up or have to spend huge ammounts of money buying 
really chunky servers and network connectivity to be able to witstand 
the onslaught?

They clearly have no clue about botnets...

_ANY_ "anti-spam" method that depends on scale (be strike-back like 
this, or Billy's (once) favourite "Penny Black", etc, etc) defeating 
spammers is broken by botnets, as they already afford the spammers the 
supposedly prohibitive scale.

So, aside from the valid concerns raised by other commentators in the 
article, we can add "utter cluelessness as to the actual nature of the 
problem" to the reasons Blue Frog is a worthless PoS "technology".


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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