Josh (the blog)

I’ve delivered simple, clear and easy-to-use services for 20 years, for startups, scaleups and government. I write about the nerdy bits here.


@joahua

Make love, not spam.

If you’re running Windows or MacOS, and “do” screensavers (or even if you don’t, but would consider it for a worthy cause), go check out Make LOVE not SPAM, a product of Lycos.

It’s a Denial of Service attack turned sideways — the screen saver will send requests for between three and four MB of data a day from sites on spam blacklists, etc., in order to make their bandwidth costs billow out of control, ultimately making spamming far more expensive than previously thought.

I love the idea, and have downloaded it here. Do it!