KnujOn ("no junk" spelled backwards, and pronounced "new john") was a project involved in
Internet security
Internet security is a branch of computer security. It encompasses the Internet, browser security, web site security, and network security as it applies to other applications or operating systems as a whole. Its objective is to establish rules ...
. KnujOn targeted
spam at its root, attacking the illicit activities that
spammers
This is a list of individuals and organizations noteworthy for engaging in bulk electronic spamming, either on their own behalf or on behalf of others. It is not a list of all spammers, only those whose actions have attracted substantial independen ...
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
High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA) in November 2005. That
software
Software is a set of computer programs and associated software documentation, documentation and data (computing), data. This is in contrast to Computer hardware, hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work.
...
, designed to filter
junk mail and produce complaints that may result in shutdowns of scam websites, tracked Internet-based
scams
A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using their credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed. Researchers have de ...
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. 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
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Blue Frog
Blue Frog was a freely-licensed anti-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 com ...
References
External links
KnujOn.com
Spamming
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