About Us.

The Site.

Driven by a need to secure people's forums against an ever growing flood of spambots, ruthlessly chewing up public bulletin boards with spam, and worse, causing some to actually become infective to visitors...

Also taking into account site scrappers and defacers, who will just mutilate your site to impress a small cadre of friends in an attempt to show a shocking abuse of power...

...this site was brought to life.

Our methods to do this are deep connection inspection at the server level, and inventive, strong CAPTCHAs, designed to detect and stymie robot spammers, and skript kiddies where they are weakest, image recognition, and the fact most hacks require non-standard inputs.

Yes, we will try to help the world with this problem, and we know we will never actually win. We just hope to keep 1 step ahead of the skiddies and bots. Chances are this site will even be dropped by botnets occasionally, and may even get defaced occasionally, but with God's providence, and a little effort we hope to be back, like a bad social disease (with good effects).

We also hope to never gain an arrogant aire of confidence where our guard is dropped long enough to allow our foes the upper-hand. But we also know however humble we try to be, they will perceive us as a threat, and do their best to take us down.

“Evinco, est pergo bellum!”

"To conquer, is to continue the war!"
or if you prefer,

"Noli spurius permittere te terere!"

"Don't let the bastards wear you down!"

The Team.

Mike:
Experience starts small. Zaphod got his first computer in 1982, a small, almost calculator sized gadget called a...

  1. Timex/Sinclair 1000,
    2. from there it went onto...
  2. Atari 600XL
  3. Atari 800XL
  4. Atari 130XE
  5. Amiga 500
  6. AMD 80286-20
  7. AMD 80486DX2-66 (OCed to DX4-100)
  8. AMD 5x86-133 "X5"
  9. AMD Athlon 500 "Argon"
  10. AMD Athlon XP 3200+ "Barton"
And if this site gins up some kaching, a quad-core AMD?

But I digress. The pattern here is obvious, he loathes intel, always has probably always will. The only reason that the webserver is an intel 930 MHz intel is, that it was a dumpster dived PC. That's right, a webserver for $0.00 ! Oh, and the web building machine, another dumpster special! It's 950 MHz AMD. He keeps the Barton free for his game lamer side.

His first website, though it pains him to look at it now, was for (and is still for) BOMARC Services. You can actually see the Apr 28, 1999 mirror of it in the Wayback Machine. Yecch! He sure has come a long way. After that, he had a dubious flirtation with a Harley-Davidson dealership that shall remain nameless as their webmaster/general technologist. Then he webmastered/hosted for a small photography studio, that shall also remain nameless. Then he started a forum on his personal site and immediately, it was hit by spambots! Soon after, when he put up the Backscatter CAPTCHA mod that he wrote., the hackers came to mess it up. Due to some sectret technology at his server, they didn't get far, and he was able to start doing research into making what is now ZB Block.

His hopes are to eventually get hired by his ISP, or another worthy outfit, to enhance their website, and assist customers through it.

Michele:
Mike met Michele about 6 years ago on a p2p chat system and he found her to be of extremely good character, and a very worthy assistant in most of his web endeavors. She is responsible for the template this site runs on, and several constructive criticisms of the contents found herein. She also grubstaked the domain name for Mike. More on this wonderful person can be found on her site http://www.michelespaintshop.com .