November 27, 2004

Make Love Not Spam

This is awesome.
Lycos in Europe has decided to hit Spammers where they live, on their servers.
A new website, developed by Lycos - MakeLoveNotSpam.com, has a downloadable screensaver which once executed joins other screensavers in launching a denial of service attack on known spam servers.
The idea is to overburden Spam servers to the point where they become slow and maybe even crash.
This would in turn force Spammers to endure ridiculous bandwidth bills for what would essentially be useless IP traffic.
According to a Lycos spokesman in Germany, each screensaver would generate an average of 3.4 mb of traffic per day, which means that if 10 million screensavers are downloaded they could collectively send upwards of 33 Terrabytes of traffic towards Spam servers.
So let's see I could help slow down Spammers hardware, clog up their bandwidth, and have them waste time by trying to figure out what is legitimate traffic and what is just garbage -sounds like an early Christmas gift to me.
You can download the screensaver here.



1 Comments:

Blogger James Mason said...

Just a quick update Lycos Europe has pulled the screensaver off of it's servers.

James - www.closetgeek.net

12:10 AM  

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