Michael Gracie

It what could only be described as a silly idea, a new startup aims to stop spam by inundating spammer websites with requests to quit bothering you. While the concept is a noble one, it smells a lot like a distributed denial of service attack (which by the way is against the law).

The company, Blue Security of Menlo Park, even admits that the sheer number of requests should be enough to slow spammers’ websites down, making spamming less economical be reducing the number of transactions that can be had.

The Slashdot crowd had this to say about the approach.
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I am not sure whether the Fingerprint Sharing Alliance will capable of relieving service providers of the unending barrage of zombie-based directory harvesting and DDOS attacks, but at least it is a start.

Read ISPs share hacker info from The Register, for a little bit more information.
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