Chaos Magnet

Screensaver targets spam websites

Via the Rambling Programmer, Lycos now has a screensaver that sends repeated requests to spam web sites as an attempt to make their bandwidth too expensive. I dunno. I think I'm paying 10 bucks for an extra gig of bandwidth -- or I would, if I had that much traffic. They're talking about sending an extra few gigs a day to these sites. So, maybe ...

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