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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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Re: Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath 2006-05-19
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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...

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