Blacklist

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See also: Security | List

Moderation or boycott list of bad things, like an abusive IP addresses. E-mail can also be filtered using a blacklist of known spammers. Blacklists are the opposite of a whitelist, althought the two are frequently used together.

Although potentially very negative things, blacklists are generally good in computer security:

• Stopping or preventing DDOS attacks
• Keeping harmful or commercial interests (RIAA, spyware companies, bad governments etc.) from connecting to your workstation or server.
• Preventing spam postings (for example, iA has a blacklist in place to prevent spam, trolls, and other harmful postings).

"Wholesale" blacklists are excellent security tools when they allow only a small number of addresses or locations access. For example, setting up your home computer to only accept connections from your work computer.

Blacklist software

• PeerGuardian
• Protowall
• Azureus plugin "Safepeer"

Related Topics

• Firewall
• PinkmeatCatcher
• RIAA/Safeguard
• Spam Blockers
• Wishlist

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