CircleID

A few questions - first, do you seriously expect spammers - especially the trojan using sort that'd exploit p2p networks - are going to seriously look at your do not disturb list?

That, and the FTC last year raised several correct and valid objections against a do not email registry, in their report to congress. http://www.ftc.gov/reports/dneregistry/report.pdf and http://www.newstarget.com/000427.html

Other do not call lists have been tried, such as the DMA's e-mps, and have mostly if not all fallen by the wayside.

Finally, for a circleid story, I'd have expected less marketing / press release type wording and more statistics, or a claim that a "solution" exists - none does, mitigation perhaps, but not a solution.

But then, your circleid profile says

Name: Eran Aloni
Occupation: Director of Marketing
Website: www.bluesecurity.com

I would put it to you that prnewswire would be a much more appropriate place than circleid to plant press releases.

regards
--srs

Spam is odd in the sense that practices change so drastically and suddenly. A couple of years back, if you wanted to be spammed, you put an email address on a web page and let it be harvested. I put a few spammer-bait addresses on a web page recently, and the spam that arrives there is almost exclusively 419 spam, and not a whole lot of it. Maybe I need to seed a higher-profile web page.

Using an email address on Usenet appears to be a much better way of attracting spam than the web-publishing approach, although there again you won't attract the full gamut of spammers. My Usenet address attracts daily eBay phish attempts, and quite a few MMF scams, but not the Via'gra spams which do a much better job of locating my real email addresses.

After seeing this report last week, I confirmed that it's possible to scrounge up email lists via P2P file-sharing networks. But anyone who is unknowingly exposing such lists is in much bigger dangers than simply receiving more spam. Chances are they're also sharing the contents of their entire hard disk. Does Blue Security have a solution for that, too?