the future of blue security

i know it sounds like a strange subject to blog about, now that blue security has given up... the thing is, this is the internet - and i've been on the internet long enough to know that neither good ideas nor bad ideas ever happen just once... everything gets repeated - over and over and over and over and over again...

so the spammers knocked the company off the face of the web with a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack... the very fact that they mounted such a counter attack is an indication that the technique blue security was using was working... lashing out the way they did is a sign of weakness, not strength...

unfortunately (for the spammers) the spammers are apparently unfamiliar with the streisand effect... their actions have served to advertise their vulnerability and all the people who thought blue security's idea was a good one and a bunch of new people who hadn't even heard of it before are now going to recognize that vulnerability for what it is and put that information to use...

you see, you might be able to kill a commercial venture like blue security through force and intimidation, but you can't kill an idea quite so easily... you remember what happened when the original napster went down? hundreds of knock-offs popped up in it's place and peer-to-peer filesharing has been an unstoppable hydra ever since...

it's likely that something similar will happen here with the same analysis of past efforts, identification of points of weakness, and innovation to overcome those weaknesses that continues to take place on the p2p front to this very day...

and what about that one russian spammer threatening to take down the entire internet if he can't send his spam? well let's just say that there are all kinds on the internet, and i'm not naive enough to think that there aren't some people out there that are so fed up with spam as to be willing to endure the internet version of a scorched earth in order to affect a final solution to the spam problem...

blue security may be gone, but i don't think the story is over... not by a long shot... the spammers clearly won this battle, but they may have just lost the war...