[Mimedefang] Phishing Question

[Mark Johnson]

> You'd probably be taking out (somewhat) innocent third parties.  Most of 
> the phishing web sites are on legit servers that have been compromised.  I 
> guess you could argue that they deserve it for not securing their servers, 
> but I doubt the owner would feel that way when their business just dies. 
> That would bring in the lawyers, and once that happens nobody wins (except 
> those that bill by the hour).
>
>   
I don't really mean cripple the servers...  I mean coordinated data 
insertion.  If you attempted to cripple the server, they would just 
start firewalling the offending IP's which would have the opposite 
effect.  These would need to come in at a rate that would make the data 
useless, but slow enough to be hard to tell legitimate from fake.

Mark