I think those are both lame defenses.

Certainly someone who distributes a program designed to flood an alleged phishing site with false information may not intend that enough people use it to deny service to the target, but once the tool is out of his hands, how can he know how and how many people will use it? It's a destructive tool that may have thousands of simultaneous users. At least, that seems like a bad idea to me.

I also say alleged because I have no confidence that a program will always identify phishing sites correctly, especially after malicious people realize that they can use the ad-hoc network of tool users to deny service to targets of their choosing by spoofing messages to make their targets look like targets.

Again, it may not be the intent of the tool's creator to affect the innocent, but that doesn't make the tool a good idea as I see it.

In reply to Re^5: Automatic phish form filler by chromatic
in thread Automatic phish form filler by Roy Johnson

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