KnujOn ("no junk" spelled backwards, and pronounced "new john") was a project involved in
Internet security. KnujOn targeted
spam
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* Spam (food), a canned pork meat product
* Spamming, unsolicited or undesired electronic messages
** Email spam, unsolicited, undesired, or illegal email messages
** Messaging spam, spam targeting users of instant messaging ( ...
at its root, attacking the illicit activities that
spammers derive their revenue from. To that end, KnujOn ran an automated spam reporting tool.
History
KnujOn was founded in 2005 by Garth Bruen and his father Dr. Robert Bruen. A multi-purpose software tool called KnujOn was presented at The Northeast Chapter of the
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(HTCIA) in November 2005. That
software, designed to filter
junk mail and produce complaints that may result in shutdowns of scam websites, tracked Internet-based
scams and built profiles of persons or organizations engaged in suspicious Internet activity by gathering and sorting large amounts of data.
KnujOn.com collected spam samples from the public, not to build better filters or
blacklists, but rather to use them for illicit site termination, to test the Internet's policy infrastructure, and gather important
statistics
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. Their general goal was to target advertised illicit transaction sites and hopefully take the financial incentive out of the spam cycle.
As of 8 March 2018 the service stopped accepting new subscriptions and email submissions began bouncing. On 22 May 2018 the service was shut down.
See also
*
Blue Frog
References
External links
KnujOn.com
Spamming
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