BlueSecurity Database Compromised?
May. 2nd, 2006 12:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gizaSeen on Slashdot:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/02/1326228
If you have their BlueFrog plugin installed in FireFox, you should read that link very carefully.
Personally, I figured it was only a matter of time until something like this happened. What Blue Security was doing, quite frankly, was a "vigilante" approach to fighting spam. To simplify it, their software would do DDoS attacks against spammers by flooding them with complaints. Both the ethicality and legality of this are questionable at best.
Sooner or later some spammer would get really pissed off, and that appears to have happened. Spammers are evil, and they tend to direct that evil at those who piss them off the most. (SpamHaus, SpamCop, etc.)
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/02/1326228
If you have their BlueFrog plugin installed in FireFox, you should read that link very carefully.
Personally, I figured it was only a matter of time until something like this happened. What Blue Security was doing, quite frankly, was a "vigilante" approach to fighting spam. To simplify it, their software would do DDoS attacks against spammers by flooding them with complaints. Both the ethicality and legality of this are questionable at best.
Sooner or later some spammer would get really pissed off, and that appears to have happened. Spammers are evil, and they tend to direct that evil at those who piss them off the most. (SpamHaus, SpamCop, etc.)