10-12-2005, 10:04 AM
Quote:...Reshef wants me to tap into my dormant rage and fight back. Don't worry, he tells me, you'll have a posse. He's organizing thousands of weary victims like me and leading us in a kind of distributed denial- of-service attack. It's a weapon normally employed by malicious hackers who use hijacked PCs to flood unsuspecting companies, but Reshef is out to cripple offensive bulk emailers. "That," he says, "is the only way to get their attention."
...Reshef has endured a firestorm of criticism for his brand of vigilantism
Blue Security isn't the first to generate controversy by attacking spammers head-on...
full article: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.10..._tophead_5