I don’t use TypePad

or Livejournal, and apparently I don’t read many sites using either service because I didn’t notice that there was a huge outage for both of them a day or so ago. Six Apart, the company who runs those services, said simply that it was the victim of a massive DDoS attack. Jason Levine has done a little digging, though, and he found that underneath it all there’s a really interesting story involving an anti-spam operation (which uses questionable tactics), spammers trying to fight back, and what seems to have been a really bad decision: The dishonor of Blue Security.