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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 2006-05-21
informed citizen
They weren't DoS'ing the spammers. They were automating the complaint process so that if the companies advertised in the spam refused to honor remove requests (they were given 2 weeks after first spamming blue frog members), each member who got 1 spam would submit 1 complaint to the advertized webs...

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