Since spammers have larger numbers than we do, we must build our numbers up, be mobile and not be targetted. This is what the new anti-spammer program intends to do. The development team intends for the program to complain to only a very minimal number of spamvertised web sites. This is being done so that the program can be downloaded by a large number of people, and yet be perceived as actually doing something to go after spammers. The program will get its instructions and updates from p2p networks. This is being done so there’ll be many, many spread-out targets rather than one or a few central targets to attack.
With the exception of dropping email or complaints into a special folder, there’ll be little action required by users to run our program. The program will periodically checked for updates from other peers and send any updated instruction to other peers. The complaint instruction file will be cryptographically signed so it’llbe extremely difficult to substitute a malicious instruction file. The updates will be released from different locations and peers each time a new file is released. This will prevent spammers from tracking down or shutting down the origin of the files.
There’s a need for secrecy because spammers aren’t the most moral people on the planet and can be pretty ruthless. Many are also involved in organized crime. We don’t want to see our efforts derailed before they even have a chance to get off the ground. When the program is released, it’ll be open source so anyone who wants to can see how it works and help to improve it.
