John Jay, great supporter of the Constitution after its creation and an author of The Federalist wrote in 1786, “It is much to be wished that slavery may be abolished. The honour of the States, as well as justice and humanity, in my opinion, loudly call upon them to emancipate these unhappy people. To contend for our own liberty, and to deny that blessing to others, involves an inconsistency not to be excused.”
I’m so utterly depressed today. To the point that everything looks and feels distant and sureal. It’s like I woke up in a life that’s not mine, in a place that I don’t know. I see people having fun and wonder how they can feel anything. I’m disconnected and unable to… It feels like all of my emotions are locked up in a void from which there is no escape. Culmination…”There is no escape, you are who you’ve become.” That’s great advice to keep you from ending up in a place you don’t want to be. But where to go when your already in that place. Is there really no escape? I want to go back and do it all over again. I haven’t felt regret like this in years. It’s eating me alive right now. When your connecting the dots of a happy life they all lead up to now. When your connecting the dots of an unhappy life they all lead up to somewhere else.
Well, it’s official. Blue Security called it quits today, and closed up shop. Apparently PharmaMaster was planning DoS attack on users IP addresses that were gathered when Frog client applications posted opt-out request to the spammers site.
Eran Reshef was quoted in a Wired article saying “Our community would very much like us to continue on the fight against spam, and our community has grown over the last week,” Reshef said. “But at the end of the day if we continue doing so, within a few days, major websites will go down. I don’t feel that this is something I can be responsible for. I cannot go ahead and rip up the internet to make Blue Security work. This is not the decision a commercial entity can make.”
Read more about the community reaction here.
PharmaMaster thinks he has won. Black Frog is on the way though. Powered by determination of Open Source and stealth of power of distributed P2P. If PharmaMaster thinks Blue Frog was bad wait until he faces a beast that has no master, and no single point of attack.
If I can’t get satisfaction from a perfectly legal system like Blue Frog and Black Frog doesn’t pan out i’m putting on my Black Hat.
For all those idiots that claimed Blue Security was DDoSing the spammers and their advertizers check out this quote from a Wired article that they claim came from one of the spammers working with PharmaMaster in the attacks: “Blue Security is indeed hurting our business, but not by taking down our websites,” the purported spammer wrote. “Instead, they create a daily nuisance to our server administrators.”
Oh dear! Are we being a nuisance?! What these guy have some gall bitching about people being a nuisance. They have plauged us for years. I’m pissed…and ready for war. The potiential Black Frog project has just picked up a life long dedicated programmer. It’s on bitch!
After all of the noise PharmaMaster made over Blue Frog, and all of the threats he sent stating “you will end up recieving this message, or other nonsensical spams 20-40 times more than you would normally.”, and “but do not believe for one second that we will stop this tirade of emails if you choose to stay with BlueSecurity.”. I havn’t heard one peep from PharmaMaster in days now. My spam intake each day is at a all time low (1-3 every two days). And of the few that I receive I have the pleasure of knowing that i’m sending them an opt-out request back for each one.
The other day I pointed my browser to gmail.com to check my rarely used gmail account and see if I could find any spam there to report. But when the page loaded, my wifes email popped up. She never clears out her spam folder. *cha-ching* 1647 spam messages to report! It took a while to report them all since the Firefox extention limits you to reporting 40 at a time. Mucho fun!
I’ll have to install the Firefox extension on her laptop and set it to auto report. O.o
Ok, I’ve head of this before but didn’t realize there was a huge online community of people that practically live for this stuff. Apparently there are people called “scam baiters” who trick 419 Nigerian Scammers into all sorts of ridiculous things like this guy holding a fish in a basket to his head and a huge piece of bread to his mouth. (The pictures in this post suck…check out 419 Eaters for quality versions)
Or this on where the guy is practically praying to his scam baiter…
And how about this guy kissing a huge fish!
Educate yourself about scam baiters then check out 419 Eaters for more hilarious stuff…..
Well I don’t know about the rest of the Blue Security Community but I think Blue Frog sucks! I signed up with them because I wanted to join the fight against spam! I was ready to give those evildoers (spammers) a little taste of their own medicine. I had grand dreams of generating almost 200 opt-out request a day (one for each peice of spam I get), but outside of the 5 or 6 threats and one bounced message with forged headers from our wonderful friend PharmaMaster there has been only one piece of such mail to speak of. When I log into my Blue Frog statistics page I find the solitary number one staring me cold in the face next to a label that says “Reported Spam”. How can I hold my head up high and say “I’m fighting those bastard!”, “I’m giving them the old ‘what for’!”, “I’m breaking my proverbial foot off in some sweet spammer boo-tay.”? How I ask!? How!?
Each time I check my mail a feeling of lonelyness and emptyness wash over me. I’ve had to resort to reading old email messages to compensate. All of this because that damn do-gooder Blue Frog. I got so desperate today I sent a message to an email address I know doesn’t exist just so I could get a bounce from the mail daemon just to get a little Inbox action pop’n, make sure.
Some say “It’s not Blue Frog’s fault!”, and “The spammer chose to stop sending you messages!”. Yea, right…you mean to tell me that the same spammers, who have relentlessly filled my inbox with nearly half a million messages over the years, and bombarded various mail server under my care with millions upon millions of email messages, has suddenly decided that they don’t want to send them to me anymore?! Thats just silly! I mean they really expect people to believe that all you have to do is simply ask the spammers to stop, and they are gonna be all like “Oh I’m so sorry…let me drop you from my database right away!”
Well if you want to stand up and fight the spammers then I suggest you use one of the thousands of other product out there. If you want a boring, empty, Inbox that almost never needs to be checked then sign up for Blue Frog you quivering wimp! Then sit there and watch your Inbox shrivle away to nothing. Before you know it you’ll be teaching your mom how to get on the “Interweb” so your can email fix each week.
(Just a note for the incredibly dense…Blue Frog is the best spam prevention tool ever created, absolutely nothing has ever put a real dent in my spam intake, Blue Frog has all but eliminated it. Please be patient with Blue Security they are still on the receiving end of a DDoS attack from PharmaMaster and thus the site will often not load. You may need to click refresh every 10 seconds or so until it loads.)
Well it seems as though PharmaMaster, a spammer who unleashed a hail storm of attacks against Blue Security last weekend has sent out a new email to the Blue Security registered users. Again he is threatening to increase the amount of spam we receive by 20 fold. I for one have not seen any increase yet, so maybe they are just empty threats. I had originally signed up for Blue Frog and would have likely forgotten all about it. Thanks to the acts of this spammer i’ve started activly using Blue Frog. Take a minute to read PharmaMaster’s most recent email to the Blue Frog community:
Dear Blue Frog Member,
As a follow-up to our previous emails, and, as promised, we are stepping up in the fight against Blue Security.
The Blue Frog member email database has been compromised, and is currently being distributed worldwide to spammers and to the public. Attached to this email, you will find a zip file of the Blue Frog database, which includes your own personal or business email address(es). If you have not uninstalled Blue Frog yet, we highly suggest you do so now in order to avoid your involvement in this war any further.
Leaving your email address on the list is a risky choice, as we will uphold our promise not only to increase your spam by 20 times the amount you are receiving now, but to continue to make this list publically available as well. Also, as the Blue Frog member database is updated, we will find more creative ways in which to use it, and frequently release it to whomever we wish.
Blue Security, Inc
Awwww….isn’t that cute? He signed it “Blue Security, Inc.”. I wonder if he really believes that might fool someone at this point. (BTW There is no evidence in the header of that email that suggest a .zip file of the database was ever actuall attached to that email.)
So now i’ll have 200 spam automatically moved to my Junk Mail folder instead of 10 each day. Big deal! So now when I click on the little blue frog picture in Thunderbird it will generate 200 opt-out request to fire back at PharmaMaster. That’s kind of like PharmaMaster throwing water balloons at us, and instead of breaking we catch them and peg him in the back of the head with them while he runs away screaming like a little girl. Go ahead, send 200…..hell, send 2000! Bring it bitch! I personally think that ultimately Blue Security’s opt-out tactic won’t stop this guy, but he’s pissed off, and when people get pissed off they tend to do stupid stuff and cross lines that keep them safe. Emotion brings out the stupid in people, and PharmaMaster is really stupid….errrr….i mean emotional…
Just how retarted is PharmaMaster? We will see…
Wow…I had no idea just how serious this attack was. Typepad was used as a temporary blog during the attack and bluesecurity.com was redirected there. Shortly after that PharmaMaster (spammer in question) launched a DDoS on bluesecurity.com and in turn nailing Typepad instead. PharmaMaster then moved to bigger fish. Tucow’s DNS servers were taken out and its services provided to thousands of other customers went away along with bluesecurity.com’s.
What’s incredibly interesting are the ICQ chat logs Blue Security has posted that show conversations with top level backbone support requesting the bluesecurity.com be blackholed.
Check it out here: click me now…hurry up!!
Wow! What a weird turn of events. I was on mozilla.org’s web site a couple of weeks ago downloading the new 1.5.0.x release when I saw a banner for a anti-spam utility. I figured I would check it out because my spam level has recently jumped several fold. I registered at the site and downloaded the program to check it out. Apparently their tactic is the send opt-out request to these spammers on your behalf for each and every email they send you. It sounded like an interesting technique…but like most things online I forgot about it after a few days and went on with my life of deleting 20-40 spam messages a day. The on March the 2nd I got a rather interesting piece of email. It had all the trademarks of spam but I opened it anyway and started to read.
Hey,You are recieving this email because you are a member of BlueSecurity (http://www.bluesecurity.com).
You signed up because you were expecting to recieve a lesser amount of spam, unfortunately, due to the tactics used by BlueSecurity, you will end up recieving this message, or other nonsensical spams 20-40 times more than you would normally.
How do you make it stop?
Simple, in 48 hours, and every 48 hours thereafter, we will run our current list of BlueSecurity subscribers through BlueSecurity’s database, if you arent there.. you wont get this again.
We have devised a method to retrieve your address from their database, so by signing up and remaining a BlueSecurity user not only are you opening yourself up for this, you are also potentially verifying your email address through them to even more spammers, and will end up getting up even more spam as an end-result.
By signing up for bluesecurity, you are doing the exact opposite of what you want, so delete your account, and you will stop recieving this.
Why are we doing this?
Its simple, we dont want to, but BlueSecurity is forcing us. We would much rather not waste our resources and send you these useless mails, but do not believe for one second that we will stop this tirade of emails if you choose to stay with BlueSecurity. Just remember one thing when you read this, we didnt do this to you, BlueSecurity did.
If BlueSecurity decides to play fair, we will do the same.
We are quite sure you will think this will not continue, that we will not continue wasting our resources doing this, feel free to wait out the first 48, or the second, and see whether these stop, you will be quite suprised.
If you have another email under the protection of bluesecurity, and have not recieved this there, do not worry, you will soon enough.
We mightve had your email addresses before in our lists, but now, we are targetting YOU, because YOU are a bluesecurity user.
You might also notice, that the BlueSecurity site(http://www.bluesecurity.com) is down..
Just remove yourself from BlueSecurity, and make it easier on you.
Marta Tanner
How unusual is that? So I go to check the Blue Security web site and see if they have any info about this “weirdness”, but the site won’t load. So I begin searching around the internet to see what I can dig up, but all Google is giving me are links to the non-working site. At this point I’m beginning to think this Blue Frog thing was a scheme by a spammer to get email addresses. I can’t do anything but wait and see so I do. Over the next couple of days I recieve 2 messages a day with a copy of the registrar information for Blue Security web site with forged headers (obviously from the same person who sent the first one). After a few days of this I give the bluesecurity.com website another try and this time it works. I won’t go into the whole story but it basicly boils down to a very pissed off spammer launching a DDoS attack on bluesecurity.com and a few back bones that connect Isreal with the rest of the world, sending emails like the one above to everyone in hope of scaring people off, and using their connections with certain ISPs to get the Blue Security site blocked. You can read all about it at http://www.bluesecurity.com.
Yea, I quit quiting. Basically confirming my hunch that there is no in between. You either quit or you don't. There is no "I only smoke socially, or occasionally…" I thought I could handle only smoking on Poker night, or here and there, but here I stand before you now a full fledged smoker again. Anyway…this is my obligitory post. I'm sick and don't feel like thinking, or rambling away on here.
