Problem: Spammers Annoys Me
Solution: Me Annoy Spammers (FireFox Plug-in)
“Any energy you send out, it shall return to you three-fold” — Wiccan philosophy
You can make a FireFox plug-in that allows a user to tag some URLs as spam. The plug-in would then visit each link in the spam ten times, loading pages and filling in forms. It would fill in forms with random, possibly plausible, values. It would do this only a few times for each spam received. All this would happen in the background.
There have been various centralized attempts at using bandwidth usage costs against spammers: Lycos launched the “Make Love Not Spam” screen saver; BlueFrog attempted a forcible opt-out method. Most of these attempts have had a centralized, vulnerable component. A Hassler plug-in would have be controlled and selected by the end user.
Technology can be used for good or ill. The same technology would allow a user to pick a website they disagree with and continually spam the site. Harmless sites could be hassled to death by random annoying people. This is a cute hack to do more good than bad in the short run. In the long run, the email protocols need rethinking.That said, the core pieces of this hack include:- A method of scanning the highlighted text for URLs and adding those URLs to a current targets list that records sites to be hassled and how many more times they should be hassled.
- A method of picking an idle time in the browsing process to start loading a page and associated images, cookies, and frames into a buffer.
- Scanning the buffer for forms to automatically fill, or for links to follow.
- Options box for everything.
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