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Blue Frog
Developer(s)	Blue Security
Operating system	Microsoft Windows Extension for Mozilla Firefox
License	Open-source^[specify]
Website	Blue Security Inc. (archived)

Blue Frog was a freely-licensedanti-spam tool produced by Blue Security Inc. and operated as part of a community-based system which tried to persuade spammers to remove community members' addresses from their mailing lists by automating the complaint process for each user as spam is received. Blue Security maintained these addresses in a hashed form in a Do Not Intrude Registry, and spammers could use free tools to clean their lists. The tool was discontinued in 2006.

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Information[edit]

Community members reported their spam to Blue Security, which analyzed it to make sure it met their guidelines, then reported sites sending illegal spam to the ISPs which hosted them (if they could be contacted and were willing to work with them), to other anti-spam groups and to law-enforcement authorities in an attempt to get the spammer to cease and desist. If these measures failed, Blue Security sent back a set of instructions to a Blue Frog client. The client software used these instructions to visit and leave complaints on the websites advertised by the spam messages. For each spam message a user received, their Blue Frog client would leave one generic complaint, including instructions on how to remove all Blue Security users from future mailings. Blue Security operated on the assumption that as the community grew, the flow of complaints from tens or hundreds of thousands of computers would apply enough pressure on spammers and their clients to convince them to stop spamming members of the Blue Security community.

The Blue Frog software included a Firefox and Internet Explorer plugin allowing Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo! Mail e-mail users to report their spam automatically. Users could also report spam from desktop email applications such as Microsoft Office Outlook, Outlook Express and Mozilla Thunderbird.

Users who downloaded the free Blue Frog software registered their e-mail addresses in the 'Do Not Intrude' registry. Each user could protect ten addresses and one personal DNSdomain name.

Blue Frog was available as a free add-on within the FiretrustMailwasher anti-spam filter. It was also compatible with SpamCop, a tool with different spam-fighting methods.

Blue Security released all its software products (including Blue Frog) as open-source:^[1] the developer community could review, modify, or enhance them.

Spammers' backlash[edit]

A variation of the hoax messages.

On May 1, 2006, Blue Frog members started to receive intimidating e-mail messages from sources claiming that the software was actually collecting personal details for identity theft, DDoS attacks, creating a spam database, and other such purposes. Blue Security has contested these claims.^[2]

One variant of the e-mailed message stated that spammers had found a way to extract addresses from the database for malicious purposes. Due to how the Blue Security software works, this is not possible; however, spammers can identify BlueFrog member e-mail addresses in lists they already possess. Blue Security provides spammers a free tool that allows them to 'clean their lists'. Extracting addresses directly from the program would be impossible as they are just hashes, but a spammer can run a list through the BlueSecurity filter and then compare the results with an unaltered list, and thus identify BlueSecurity users and target them. This method can only identify Blue Frog addresses already in the spammer's possession, and cannot give them access to as-yet-untargeted addresses.

Controversy[edit]

In May 2006, the Blue Security company was subject to a retaliatory DDoS attack initiated by spammers. As its servers folded under the load, Blue Security redirected its own DNS entries to point to the company weblog, which was announcing its difficulty. The company weblog was hosted at the blogs.com webportal, a subsidiary of Six Apart. This effectively redirected the attack to blogs.com and caused Six Apart's server farm to collapse, which in turn is said to have made some 2,000 other blogs unreachable for several hours.

Individuals claiming to be members of the computer security establishment condemned the Blue Security company for the action it took while under DDoS attack. A representative of Renesys likened this action to pushing a burning couch from their house to a neighbor's.^[3]

In its defense, Blue Security Inc. stated that it was not aware of the DDoS attack when it made the DNS change, claiming to have been 'blackholed' (or isolated) in its Israeli network as a result of a social engineering hack, which was alleged to have been pulled off by one of the attackers against a high-tier ISP's tech support staff.

This claim has been disputed by many writers such as Todd Underwood, writer of Renesys blog.^[3] Most sources, however, agree that regardless of whether Blue Security were 'blackholed', they seem not to have been facing attack at the time they redirected their web address. Blue Security also claimed^{[citation needed]} to have remained on amicable terms with Six Apart and pointed to the fact that the blog hosting company did not blame or even name them in the press release which explained the service outage.^[4] In any event, the action was widely reported on IT security websites, possibly damaging Blue Security's reputation within that community. At the same time, the incident and its broad reporting in more general-interest media was considered by many to be a boon to the notoriety of Blue Security and the Blue Frog project.

Security expert Brian Krebs gives a different reason for Blue Security's website being unavailable in his article for The Washington Post.^[5] He says that what happened was not that Blue Security was lying about being unable to receive HTTP requests (because their servers were down), saying they had been 'black hole filtered' and maliciously re-directed traffic, but rather that they were actually unable to receive traffic due to an attack on their DNS servers. This makes it probable that they had essentially been telling the truth and that CEO Eran Reshef was simply misinformed as to why their users were unable to reach their site.

Accusations of being malware[edit]

Some users accused Blue Frog of being malware itself on Mozilla's chat forums, claiming that Blue Frog spammed signatures in Yahoo! and Gmail accounts, left active remnants all over the operating system after uninstalling, and hinted that the actual reason for Blue Frog's existence in accumulating a 'do-not-spam' database was to harvest fresh addresses for spammers to deluge.^[6] Blue Frog shut down one week after the forum thread appeared.

After Blue Security recast itself as Collactive, it would again be accused of spamming.^[7]

Attackers identified[edit]

Soon after the attack started, Blue Security CEO Eran Reshef claimed to have identified the attacker as PharmaMaster, and quoted him as writing 'Blue found the right solution to stop spam, and I can't let this continue' in an ICQ conversation with Blue Security.

Prime suspects for the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Blue Security's servers have been identified in the ROKSO database as Christopher Brown, AKA Swank AKA 'Dollar'^[8] and his partner Joshua Burch AKA 'zMACk'.^[9] Unidentified Australians and 'some Russians' (Russian/Americans), notably Leo Kuvayev^[10] and Alex Blood,^[11] were also involved. The suspects were identified from a transcript of their postings^[12] in the Special ham forum where both the spam attacks and DDoS attack were planned.

Shutdown of service[edit]

Blue Security ceased operation on May 16, 2006. The company announced it will look for non-spam related uses of its technology. The company's investors expressed full support for the company's decision to change its business plan.^[13]

Many users have suggested continuing the project's goals in a decentralized manner (specifically using peer-to-peer technology, with the client distributed via BitTorrent or similar, thus making both the spam processing and client distribution elements harder for the spammers to attack). One such program was purportedly begun under the name Okopipi^[14] though this now appears to have been abandoned.

A number of users have recommended all users to uninstall the Blue Frog program, as it is no longer useful without the Blue Security servers active.^[15]

Complainterator[edit]

One of the former Blue Security members, Red Dwarf, wrote a program called Complainterator.^[16] It runs on Windows and as an add-on to several popular email clients. It processes spam emails and produces email messages to be sent to sites hosting spamvertised products. The goal is to inform hosting sites in hopes that they will remove spam sites, thereby making it difficult for spammers to profit from spam activities.

References[edit]

^'Blue Frog'. SourceForge. Archived from the original on April 12, 2006. Retrieved November 2, 2010. The Blue Frog is the home for the Blue Security's open source projects. Blue Security's service enables clients to report spam and to submit opt-out requests to spammers based on their reports.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
^'Community', BlueSecurity^{[permanent dead link]}.
^ ^a^bUnderwood 2006.
^Typepad update, Six apart, May 2006.
^Krebs 2006.
^'How to uninstall 'Blue Frog' COMPLETELY'. mozillaZine. May 9, 2006. Retrieved July 5, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
^'Blue Security Resurfaces Reincarnated as a Social Networking Spammer – The Blue Frog Will Spam Digg, Del.icio.us and More with Their New Collactive Service'. The Internet Patrol: ISIPP Publishing. June 7, 2007. Retrieved July 5, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
^'Evidence', Rokso, Spamhaus.
^'Evidence', Rokso, Spamhaus
^'Evidence', Rokso, Spamhaus.
^'Evidence', Rokso, Spamhaus.
^Red Toad (2006-05-02), 'Spam attack plan', BlueSecurity Database Compromised?(comment) (transcript), Slashdot.
^Singel 2006.
^CastleCops, archived from the original on 2006-10-28CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link).
^CastleCops, archived from the original on 2007-10-04CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link).
^Complainterator.

Bibliography[edit]

Krebs, Brian (May 17, 2006), 'Blue Security Kicked While It's Down', The Washington Post, archived from the original on June 12, 2006CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link) on the spammers victory and its implications.
Singel, Ryan (May 16, 2006), 'Under Attack, Spam Fighter Folds', Wired News.
Underwood, Todd (May 8, 2006), 'The Blue Security Fiasco', Renesys, archived from the original on June 18, 2006CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link).

External links[edit]

Berinato, Scott (November 2006), 'Attack of the Bots. The latest threat to the Net: autonomous software programs that combine forces to perpetrate mayhem, fraud, and espionage on a global scale. How one company fought the new Internet mafia – and lost', Wired, 14 (11) on botnets and the DDoS attack on Blue Frog, Oct 31, 2006.
Brand, Madeleine; Reshef, Eran (17 May 2006), 'Spammers Win, Anti-Spam Software Firm Shuts Down', Day to Day(transcript) (interview), NPR.
Montan, Eric, Spammer Desperately Tries to Undermine Blue Security.
Krebs, Brian (May 17, 2006), 'In the Fight Against Spam Email, Goliath Wins Again', The Washington Post.
Ranum, Marcus J, 'Enabling the Complaint Department', Ranum (editorial).
KnujOn – Another anti-spam service, 'a multi-tiered response to Internet threats, specifically email-based threats'

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Shock Wave
Developer(s)	Advanced Technology Group
Publisher(s)	Electronic Arts
Director(s)	Kelly Pope
Producer(s)	Stewart J. Bonn
Designer(s)	Michael Becker
Artist(s)	Bob Rossman David Pettigrew Don Woo
Composer(s)	Tony Berkeley Marc Farly Don Veca
Platform(s)	3DO, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn
Release	3DOOperation Jumpgate NA: May 19, 1995 EU: 1995 Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, PlayStationSega Saturn NA: August 26, 1996 EU: 1996
Genre(s)	Combat flight simulation
Mode(s)	Single-player

Shockwave Assault (originally released as Shock Wave on the 3DO) is a science fictioncombat flight simulationvideo game developed by Advanced Technology Group and published by Electronic Arts. The player takes on control of a futuristic plane to defeat many extraterrestrial ships and tripods. The plane's main weapons are lasers and rockets. The game includes two discs. The first disc takes place on earth where the player must liberate the planet from the alien invaders, which is called Invasion Earth. The second disc takes place on Mars, which is called Operation Jumpgate.

Shock Wave was a pack-in game for the Goldstar 3DO.^[1]

Plot[edit]

The year is 2019 and the alien invasion is here. In a surprise attack, the aliens decimate Earth's military forces. Mankind's only hope is the surviving orbital space carrier Omaha and its squadron of F-177 pilots. As the young and inexperienced member of the squadron, it is the protagonist's job to drive the aliens from the planet.^[2]

Gameplay[edit]

Most of Shockwave Assault takes place in the cockpit of a F-177 fighter. The fighter is armed with a rapid fire laser which consumes energy and a limited number of homing missiles. The ship automatically levels off when it stops turning. The thrusters consume fuel, but give the ship a useful burst of speed. The shield is depleted as the ship runs into things or is hit by enemy fire. Each of these resources can be replenished by flying under the refueling drones that are located at fixed locations in each mission.^[3] The ship automatically hovers over the terrain, making it impossible to crash.^[4]

The player must fight through 15 missions^[4] (10 in the 3DO version^[5]), each with a boss at the end. The levels take place at various places around the Earth, and the terrain is modeled appropriately (Egypt has desert terrain, Peru has jungles, etc.). At the start of each mission the player is briefed on what to expect, and throughout the level, the onboard computer gives additional information that changes depending on the player's performance.^[3]

Expansion[edit]

The game received an expansion, Shock Wave: Operation JumpGate, on the 3DO. Playing it requires a save file from the original Shock Wave to be in the 3DO's memory.^[5]

Ports[edit]

All later versions of the game (Windows, Mac OS, Apple Pippin, PlayStation, and Saturn) include the original content and the expansion pack in the same release. The Apple Pippin version was released only in North America.

The Windows version was the first Electronic Arts game specifically designed to utilize the enhancements of the Windows 95 operating system. Project director Phillippe Tarbouriech explained, 'Many of the 3D effects in Shockwave Assault would not have been possible under MS-DOS or Windows 3.1. In addition, Win 95 allows the PC to play streaming video for the first time.'^[6]

In June 1995, Atari Corporation realized a deal with EA to bring select titles to the Atari Jaguar CD, with Shock Wave being among them, but this port was never released due to the commercial and critical failure of the Atari Jaguar platform.^[7]^[8]^[9]

Reception[edit]

Review scores
Publication	Score
EGM	7.75/10 (3DO)^[10] 4.375/10 (SAT)^[11]
Next Generation	(3DO, PS1, SAT)^[12]^[13]^[14] (MAC)^[15]
Play	87% (PS1)^[16]
Sega Saturn Magazine	55% (SAT)^[17]

The original 3DO release received mixed reviews. The four reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly criticized the over-sensitive controls but praised the texture-mapped graphics and off-rails gameplay. They made particular note of the game's use of full motion video, saying that in sharp contrast to previous FMV-heavy games, the quality was sharp, the acting was good, and the overall use of FMV was 'more of an addition to the game instead of the whole emphasis.'^[10]GamePro was more critical, stating that FMVs would preempt the HUD display even in situations where the radar is needed, and the inability to alter altitude makes it feel 'like you're flying in a box.' However, the reviewer agreed that the texture-mapped graphics and FMV cutscenes are impressive, and concluded, 'Shock Wave's tough adversaries and first-rate graphics make it a decent 3DO shooter.'^[18]Next Generation reviewed the 3DO version of the game, and stated that 'If you own a 3DO unit and you've been just dying for a no-frills shooting game, then it's OK. But anyone with greater expectations will be disappointed.'^[12]

GamePro praised the game's length and the PlayStation version's new and improved animations, summarizing it as 'one very cool shooter'.^[19] A Next Generation critic said that while it runs noticeably smoother than the 3DO original and has the added bonus of the Operation Jumpgate expansion, 'it's still pretty boring, at least right up until the point where it becomes utterly too difficult to get any farther.' He elaborated that despite the 15 levels using different textures and theoretically being based on aerial photographs, they all look and play much the same. He did, however, praise the way the game runs full motion video alongside real time gameplay.^[13] A review of the Macintosh version in the same issue made the same criticisms about the sameness of the levels and none of the same praises, summarizing the game as 'the perfect title for those who don't mind brainless action patterns over and over.' Despite this, it was given a higher score than the PlayStation version.^[15]

Unlike the earlier releases, the Saturn version received resoundingly negative reviews. The four reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly praised the storyline, full motion video, and lengthy content, but said the gameplay is repetitive and frustrating, since the limited controls make it unfairly difficult to avoid taking hits.^[11]Sega Saturn Magazine's Rob Bright agreed that though each level has different objectives, the gameplay nonetheless boils down to repetitive wandering and simplistic firefights. He also argued that the storyline is simplistic, and the full motion video sequences which deliver it are 'hugely naff'.^[17] A reviewer for Next Generation deemed it 'antiquated and repetitious' in a brief review.^[14]

Next Generation reviewed Shock Wave: Operation JumpGate, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that 'The follow-up isn't as complete as the original, but is twice as challenging. It's sure to be more than satisfying to fans of the game.'^[20]

Sequel[edit]