Spamikaze, a distributed spam blocking system

This presentation will start with an overview of spammer and anti-spammer technology over the years, and an explanation of why spammers will the "arms race" over the centralised, active anti-spam blocklists that are the main defense against spam today.

The second part of the presentation will deal with Spamikaze itself, starting with an overview of the distributed design that was the reason the project came into existance, followed by an in-depth explanation of the current implementation, and its limitations. The audience will also get an overview of the future plans for Spamikaze, which address the limitations in the current version. Future plans include a distributed mode of operation and a self-tuning statistical method to distinguish between spam sending systems and high volume legitimate mail servers that occasionally hit a spamtrap.