Under Attack, Blue Security Folds Spam-Fighter Service

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

You may have already heard...

Via Wired News.

[snip]

A startup whose aggressive antispam measures drew a blistering counterattack from spammers two weeks ago that brought 
down the company's servers along with a wide swath of the internet is shuttering its program that targets junk 
e-mailers.

In an interview with Wired News, Blue Security CEO Eran Reshef said the Israel-based company was closing its service 
Wednesday since he did not want to be responsible for an ever-escalating war that could bring down internet service 
providers and websites around the world and subject its users to denial-of-service attacks from a well-organized group 
in control of a massive army of computer drones.

[snip]

More:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70913-0.html

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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