TechTheft DNSBL

We are watching you...

Hi-Technology Theft. That is what it breaks down to at the core. Viral Attacks, Spam emails, DDoS, IP hijacking, PC hijacking.

It has been going on too long and there IS a solution. Groups of administrators and hobbyists have been working since the first to prevent these malicous attacks from going anywhere, and succeeding.
Despite the amount of garbage you DO see today, 90% of all email is identified and discarded as Spam before it ever reaches you.
Without the ongoing hard work of those groups it would all be in your inbox waiting to be read.

This site has been constructed to provide a collaboration point for anyone wishing to help in this war against technology abuse.

MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention System) formed the first antispam DNSBL of machines to be blocked and ignored. It was and still is run in a completely open fashion. This has proven to be their downfall as spammers and marketing associations pulled out their chequebooks and started sueing.
When MAPS service was crushed under legal restraints a russian group built SPEWS (Spam Prevention and Early Warning System) to anonymously block sources of spam email, bad robot crawlers, and extending into their supporting networks. SPEWS policy is to block the source on detection, then after a while if the source is not removed, extend the block into the surrounding network until the source is killed. Recently, since July 2003 when spammers started collaborating with virus writers it has been evident that the SPEWS system is both too slow and too lenient to maintain its previously highly effective methods.
It has now become prudent to cut off from the internet all machines allowing email to be relayed or proxied anonymousely, identified as a viral or trojan host, hacting as support structure for spammer machines (DNS, mail, web host), and in some cases registrar for spammer resources. There are large networks of trojan zombies and hijacked IPs floating around the internet committing DDoS against the internet as a whole and occasionally combining against individual providers. There are large known deliberate corporate sponsors of these attacks, and others unwitting slaves, bound by their own ignorance and lack of regard for the world as a whole. There are registrars providing false registrations and anonymous access to the internet for unrepentant sources of constant abuse.

The solution is simple, cut the offence out at the source. We are calling an Internet Death Penalty against all sources and supporters of this abuse.

It is no longer sufficient to filter and delete just the action of abuse.