Black Frog
Posted by massnerder on May 25, 2006
Goodbye Blue Frog. Hello Black Frog.
Out of the ashes comes Black Frog, part of a project that is apparently willing to become a flag bearer in the fight against spam. The project, dubbed Okopipi, is developing the Black Frog antispam software and service as an open-source project, according to the group's wiki.
There's been a lot of debate about whether the Blue Security was a misguided attempt at vigilanteism. I'm kind of up in the air on the issue. I lean towards the Blue Security camp, though. I feel like somebody should be fighting against the low-life spammers. Responding to an e-mail with your own response (a single response to a single e-mail) seems like a fairly reasonable strategy. What happens is the web servers the spammers have have far less capacity than the thousands of zombies they send their unwanted crap from. The spammers are affected. Unfortunately, they do have their thousands of zombies and can use them for damaging attacks on the Internet itself.
Oh, well. Time for bed.
