Blue
Security may have been forced to close because of denial of service attacks
from spammers, but the internet community is determined to carry on its work.
The reborn
Blue
Frog project has been renamed
Okopipi
after a type of poison dart frog found in Suriname, South America.
The work is being carried out as part of a group collaboration, using a wiki
to co-ordinate the group's activities.
Industry analysts said the new version would need to spread its resources
across multiple servers in multiple locations to minimise its vulnerability to
spammers.
"If the new project is not to be as vulnerable to malicious attack as Blue
Security was, it will need to be highly decentralised, so there is no single
critical resource that can be attacked," said analyst Richi Jennings from
Ferris
Research.
"The project should also take care not to cross the line from legitimate spam
complaints to attacking spammers using denial of service techniques, which was
an early accusation levelled against Blue Frog."
Blue Security closed its service following
attacks by
spammers that kept it offline.
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