On Fri, Aug 13, 2004, Bevan Slattery wrote:
Hi,
Just to ease peoples concerns, the patent has nothing to do with blackholing. A brief description of the way it works can be found here:
http://www.scamslam.com/ScamSlam/whatis.shtml
We have not disclosed the site address to the "public" at this stage, the text of the site is only draft form for the purposes of editing and needs to be "polished". Perhaps the article wasn't as articulate in conveying this, but I'm sure you appreciate journalists sometimes don't get it right :)
Bevan, Would you be willing to export this database as a list of URLs rather than a list of IPs? I, for one, would like to run this on centralised proxy servers and build ACLs for devices such as proxy servers and firewalls. I don't want to speak BGP. A text file - whether its one line per host, or some well-formatted and documented XML database - would allow people to decide the best way to implement it with their network. It would be nice if it were hostname vs IP - it both stops the possibility of entire ISPs being wiped out by IP blocks and it also allows us to track the DNS changes as the phishing people start running things in a similar way to the spammers do. It would also be nice if you were able to include some metadata on what the scam is. It would allow people to choose exactly which to include in our local filters. Thankyou. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd I'm only a fanboy if <adrian@creative.net.au> I emailed Wesley Crusher.