Lets not discuss spam on this list for it's own good! :-)
Hari Kurup wrote:
In effect Okopipi would create a DOS attack on the
spammer's server after enough users have submitted spam reports.
But if a spammer reports a legitimate mail as spam, then the server
that sent the legitimate mail gets a DOS attack.
Spammers don't do that as they need
each and every mail server alive! :-)
[ While still in its early design
phase, the software is expected
to pull its data from users' spam reports. That processing will take
place on client machines and later be sent to a series of main servers,
the addresses of which will be hidden to prevent a denial-of-service
attack.
Linking the clients with the main
servers will be a set of
handling servers. Hundreds or thousands of these units -- dedicated
machines and Web sites or small businesses donating bandwidth -- will
collect spam data and pass it on to a select few handling servers that
will periodically open a secure connection with the main servers to
upload information. Each distributed client and each handler only
communicates with a finite number of handling servers, which is
intended to prevent an attacker from taking down the entire system.]
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1190407,00.html
R.
So I wonder how good this idea is.
Well lets wait :-)
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Hari Kurup
On May 30, 2006, at 9:10 AM, Ronny wrote:
Okopipi leaps in where Blue Security left off
25th, May, 2006
Defeated antispam vendor Blue Security may be no more, but that's not
the case for its technology and its spam-fighting hubris. A new
independent group called Okopipi intends to pick up where Blue
Security left off by creating an open source, peer-to-peer software
program that automatically sends "unsubscribe" messages to spammers
and/or reports them to the proper authorities.
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/122890
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