Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath

Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-05-17

Israeli anti-spam startup Blue Security decided on Tuesday to shutter its aggressive anti-spam service, citing threats of further--and more malicious--attacks on its service and users.

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It's not a DDoS they did. They merely replied on behalf of their clients to be taken of the e-mail list that was used to get them a spam e-mail.

It was a good application of the prisoners dilemma (in this case chained together) where the most profitable reaction is to mimic what the other party did to you the last round, tit for tat so to speak.

Problem is that this requires fairly strict boundaries which all parties involved have to abide by. Pharma decided not to play.

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