I found a new tool called SpamFryer on p2pnews today. It follows the same plan of attack as the Make Love Not Spam campaign that flopped. What makes this program different however (this is all from the story i haven't ran it yet, i will as soon as i install javavm) is that it allows user specified input. So the first thing that sprang to my mind is that as useful as it is to have this tool to attack spammers, couldn't it also be used quite easily in fact, to target other innocent bystanders. True you would need a group of people with similar intentions, but sometimes that isn't as hard as you think. Since the user can specify the target, and the amount of traffic to send, it can easily be tailored to whatever purpose the user desires...it is also open source, so it can be re-engineered to perform other tasks. I'm not particularly worried about this, i just found it to have potential for misuse. Here is the story from p2pnet: http://p2pnet.net/story/3258 and a direct link for download: http://www.plaza1.net/SpamFryer.jar

I'm going to give it a whirl in a little bit, and i'll post some more details