Posts by evigil

1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : LET'S FIGHT SPAMMERS!!! (Message 4389)
Posted 19 May 2006 by evigil
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"Keep in mind that many 'spammers' systems are naive end users who don't know how to secure their systems properly."

If your house, car, computer or cell phone is being used for any criminal activity without your knowledge, the police will for sure (at least temporarily) confiscate it. Ignorance is bliss; not an excuse.
2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : LET'S FIGHT SPAMMERS!!! (Message 4019)
Posted 21 Apr 2006 by evigil
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From my point of view very much, indeed.
I return most junk snailmail business reply envelopes empty. We should do something similar with junk email. We don't need to entirely bring them down, but we need to find a way to increase the cost. Once their cost approaches the profits, they will cease the activity. Until then, we will have to withstand these parasites.

I was so excited when I heard about the Lycos' antispam screensaver, but it was stopped before it could touch any spammer. Why let them abuse us??? Hence my post - I think this would be an ideal media to fight the spammers.

And a bit childish answer for the end: yes, with proper operation involved, two negative numbers can produce a positive result.


I don't represent anybody either. I'm just an end user fed up with tons of unsolicited spam, willing to support creative ideas and to do something about it. By the way, I've been faithfully running Seti at Home for 7 years and I love the concept of distributed computing and contributing to the benefit of all humans (spammers and similar pests excluded).


So you think we (the users) should use the power/numbers in boinc to launch a DOS (denial of service) attack on someone? Would two wrongs make a right?

This is solely my thoughts and do not represent anyone or any organization.

3) Message boards : BOINC Manager : LET'S FIGHT SPAMMERS!!! (Message 4000)
Posted 20 Apr 2006 by evigil
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Has anybody thought of using BOINC to fight spammers? I'm sure many e-people would love the idea of lending their PC's resources to visit spammers' web sites all at the same time to induce some type of an immense load, so they can stop loading us with their unsolicited junk.

Bluefrog from Blue Security has a similar concept and I'm using it but I'm not sure the number of users is large enough. BOINC would definitely make the difference in bringing the evil guys and their sites down to their knees.



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