{"id":664,"date":"2004-12-01T21:50:52","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T01:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=664"},"modified":"2004-12-01T21:50:52","modified_gmt":"2004-12-02T01:50:52","slug":"make-love-not-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=664","title":{"rendered":"Make Love Not Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lycos Europe has apparently launched a project to encourage users to launch a distributed denial of service attack on known spammers. They offer a screensaver that will attack spammers. For the story see, <a title=\"Spam Sites Crippled by Lycos Screensaver DDoS\" href=\"http:\/\/news.netcraft.com\/archives\/2004\/12\/01\/spam_sites_crippled_by_lycos_screensaver_ddos.html\">Netcraft: Spam Sites Crippled by Lycos Screensaver DDoS<\/a>. I can&#8217;t get through to MakeLoveNotSpam.org to check this (and get my copy of the screensaver), but this sounds like a great idea (and a great title.)<br \/>\nAccording to this story, <a title=\"Lycos Europe denies attack on zombie army | CNET News.com\" href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Lycos Europe denies attack on zombie army\/2100-7349_3-5473005.html\">Lycos Europe denies attack on zombie army | CNET News.com<\/a> the Lycos site could have been hacked in return.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nUpdate, Dec. 4th:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mlns.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/notes\/images\/mlns.gif\" width=\"158\" height=\"185\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/makelovenotspam.org\">MakeLoveNotSpam.org<\/a> site is now accessible, but with a large <b>Stay Tuned<\/b> notice. See the article at, <a title=\"Lycos Makelovenotspam say stay tuned\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spamfo.co.uk\/News\/Latest\/Lycos_Makelovenotspam_say_stay_tuned\/2\/\">Spamfo:: Lycos Makelovenotspam say stay tuned<\/a>. I must admit to having second thoughts about vigilante DDoS projects like this. A cute as it is to repay spammers, this could get out of control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lycos Europe has apparently launched a project to encourage users to launch a distributed denial of service attack on known spammers. They offer a screensaver that will attack spammers. For the story see, Netcraft: Spam Sites Crippled by Lycos Screensaver DDoS. I can&#8217;t get through to MakeLoveNotSpam.org to check this (and get my copy of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=664\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Make Love Not Spam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}