[clue-tech] Reverse spamming?

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 03-26 10:42, Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> 
> >Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal had an article about IBM now
> >backing software (don't remember if they are writing it or if they are just
> >installing someone else's software.) that will spam spammers. They also
> >mention that there is already open source software that does this, but
> >didn't mention project name(s).
> >
> >Does anyone do this, and what project(s) did you use?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> > 
> >
> What is the risk of being identified as a spammer yourself?

The article actually talked about that a bit, about how one open source
developer of a honeypot-type program actually stopped development and/or
distribution of his app. He feared that under one state's laws (forget the
state) that had rather broad language, users and/or him could be held liable
for crashing the remote computer that was using the honeypot.

Anyway, it turns out that I either misread, or WSJ misconstrued what is
going on. I searched on news.google.com:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=ibm+spam&btnG=Search+News

and came up with this article 

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39185949,00.htm

 Some reports have suggested that FairUCE sends spam back to the sender.

 "That's not actually right," said Steve Linford, director of antispam
 lobbyist Spamhaus. "It isn't sending anything back to spammers. You can't
 fight abuse with abuse, and that's not what IBM is doing." 



So, with that in mind, let me ask again. :) Does anyone use project(s) that
do this?

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