Unter Foo­tie­Fox fin­det sich end­lich noch­mal eine sinn­volle Erwei­te­rung für den Fire­fox. Die Liste der Ligen ist impo­sant, die Optio­nen gut gewählt. Defi­ni­tiv gut gemacht. Jetzt muss es sich nur noch mit den tat­säch­li­chen Spie­len bewähren.

[tags]FootieFox, Fire­fox, Fire­fox exten­si­ons, soccer[/tags]

I’m sur­pri­sed that the demise of BlueSe­cu­rity actually seems to draw such big cir­cles on the net.  The over­all sen­ti­ment seems to be one of sym­pa­thy with the people behind Blue Frog. But wri­t­ing a tool that spams spam­mers doesn’t seem like such a  smart move to me in the first place.  For one, those people are at this job lon­ger and have more expe­ri­ence, and for two, thre­ats of mas­sive DDoS-attacks aren’t par­ti­cu­larly novel, eit­her. It is not at all sur­pri­sing that some­body who makes his living of using cra­cked com­pu­ters to send out mail in ways that often is ill­le­gal in most juris­dic­tions would start to reta­liate.  Stan­ding up and com­plai­ning about how com­ple­tely amo­ral these people are is … point­less.  We knew that they are all along.

What I find more sur­pri­sing is that there still is so very little pres­sure to finally get those bot nets squas­hed. ISPs, law enforce­ment, poli­tics — that’s where they need to jump.  They need to get pres­sure on Micro­soft to make bot­nets not some­thing as easily esta­blis­hed.  They ISPs need to get their act toge­ther to bet­ter deal with infec­ted machi­nes on resi­den­tial links.  Block con­nec­tions to the irc ser­vers the bot­nets con­nect to.  Get people infor­med on what their PC is up to. Why does the world have to live with all those hund­reds of thousands of machi­nes that their owners can’t really ope­rate well enough and are now sen­ding out junk like mad?

[tags]BlueSecurity, Spam, Inter­net Secu­rity, Inter­net Policy[/tags]