BlueSecurity dead

BlueSecurity, the company that tried bravely to kill spam is dead, thanks to a DOS attack by a crazy bone headed spammer.

It used to work like this – you installed a browser extension and gave your email address to the BlueSecurity guys. They spread it round the web so that spambots pick it up. Whenever you got a spam mail, you just reported it via the extension. Then the BlueSecurity servers bombed the spammer’s account with thousands of mails containing requests to stop spamming. Most spammers gave up.

But when they tried to bomb a particularly shit headed asshole, he used hundereds of “bot” computers to bomb them back. And that was about it.

Can spam ever be stopped? Is the Internet at the mercy of some geeky kid sitting somewhere in dark room? Why is Elton John gay? Find out in the next mind-numbing episode of Stop Spamming My Grandma’s GMail Account, Act 2.

Shit.