"A couple of years ago, this column featured the prediction Today, for the first time in quite a while, he reports It’s enough to make you feel trapped, desperate, eager Blue Security’s system, called Blue Frog, is available Then Blue Frog generates a program that goes to the site’s order page, Unfortunately, Hiawatha then goes on to say that while it Personally, we are nearing a state of despair over our email. It is no longer reliable, almost unusable. The filters have gotten out of control, grown savage and vengeful, and are disappearing student essays, invitations and job offers…..<\/p>\n from the Hiawatha Bray, technology columnist for the Boston Globe, has been covering the Spam Wars for quite some time now: "A couple of years ago, this column featured the prediction that the junk e-mail problem would be coming under control right … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/spam.gif\")
Hiawatha
\n Bray<\/a>, technology columnist for the Boston Globe, has been covering the
\n Spam Wars for quite some time now:<\/p>\n
\n that the junk e-mail problem would be coming under control right about
\n now. So much for clairvoyance."<\/p>\n
\n on a promising new technology which promises a kind of wicked virtual
\n vengance for these incredibly irksome evildoers.<\/i><\/p>\n\n
\n to strike back with any tool at hand. So an Israeli entrepreneur’s plan
\n to choke spam at its source has a certain spiteful appeal.<\/p>\n
\n free at bluesecurity.com. <\/a>Blue
\n Frog registers the user’s e-mail address, then creates a dozen or so
\n fake addresses linked to the real address.
\n The phony addresses are ”honeypots," designed solely to trap
\n spam. When junk mail turns up, the Blue Frog system analyzes the spam
\n to identify
\n not its sender, but the advertiser that uses the spam to sell his wares
\n — cheap Viagra tablets, for instance. These sleazy entrepreneurs put
\n Web links in these e-mail messages, so they’re easy to find.<\/p>\n
\n and types in a message demanding an end to the e-mails. Every time a
\n Blue Frog user gets a spam message at any of the honeypot addresses,
\n the system automatically complains. Reshef is betting that if he can
\n get a critical mass of 100,000 users, Blue Frog will overwhelm spam advertisers
\n with a relentless barrage of complaints, eventually driving them right
\n off the Internet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n sounds like a great idea, his Spam experts tell him it is a lousy idea
\n and maybe illegal. Maybe he should get new experts. Anyway,
\n the great thing about this brave new world is that EVERYONE can be their
\n own expert, and decide for themselves.<\/p>\n
\n Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"