Blue frog
| Blue frog | |
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| developer | Bluesecurity company |
| Current version | [No longer available] (March 16, 2006) |
| operating system | Windows , Linux |
| category | Spam filter |
| License | MPL Mozilla Public License |
| German speaking | No |
| [No longer existent] | |
Blue Frog was among the MPL Mozilla Public License standing spam filter .
Registration was necessary in order to be able to enter the whitelist and blacklist . Blue Frog integrated into Outlook , Outlook Express , Thunderbird and Firefox . Reports of spam were sent to Bluesecurity via an OpenSSL encrypted connection and stored centrally.
Blue Frog stood out from other spam filters by actively taking action against spammers. It worked like this: The user sent his spam to Bluesecurity.com via a specially assigned email address. This sent spam was analyzed by specialists and a corresponding complaint script was programmed for the page that was advertised. Once this was available, the affected users' Blue Frog clients used this script to submit a complaint to the site. Bluesecurity made sure that only one complaint was actually sent to the relevant page for each spam email sent.
Beginning on May 1, 2006, the program's website was attacked using DDoS attacks. Employees were threatened and misinformation about the Blue Frog program spread via email. As a result, BlueSecurity announced on May 16, 2006 that the service would be discontinued.
Shortly afterwards, a new, independent project called Okopipi was in progress, which was supposed to implement the Blue Frog principle on a P2P basis. DDoS attacks on a distributed structure are at least difficult, if not hopeless. In the meantime, work on Okopipi has been stopped. With the words "the little frog is dead, long live to spam!" One of the initiators of Okopipi stated the unwillingness of volunteers to support the project.
Web links
- Notes to Blue Frog (English)
- Original source Wired News (English)
- Article about attacks after the shutdown of Bluesecurity. Zeit Online , 2006
Individual evidence
- ↑ Subject closure. heise.de
- ↑ Blog report about the end of okopipi ( Memento from May 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )