I do know that the CA AG office ignores any complaints received from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), which bars many complaints state/local LE would have received from the public about McColo. Law enforcement (in the US, anyway), by nature, is 99% reactive and 1% proactive; no complaints to LE results in no response from LE. It's hard to tell if any local/state/federal agencies knew-about/were-investigating McColo (it was the same with Intercage), but the bigger question is: does it really matter? How many cops does it take to throw a community lynching?
-- Nick Nicholas R. Newman Computer Crimes Specialist National White Collar Crime Center 1000 Technology Drive, Suite 2130 Fairmont, WV 26554 1-877-628-7674 x2244 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:54 PM To: Kee Hinckley Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [funsec] McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams KnockedOffline (fwd) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Kee Hinckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After reading this, and the (Washington Post I believe--I'm away from my > laptop right now) article on this, two things are bothering me. > > The article expressed a good deal of frustration with the (lack of) speed > with which law enforcement has been tackling these issues. What wasn't > clear was whether any attempt had been made to involve them prior to the > shutdown. Don't assume what you don't know. :-) - - ferg p.s. McColo's upstream providers are completely within their rights to terminate connectivity if they feel that they have violated their contractual terms of service. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFJGxggq1pz9mNUZTMRAsAwAKCUWdQAbTEZ+O5nWA/d1ED2fGSCQQCeJMUS PmOiEoLms6r/V1IxJqcLMlk= =2xEG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
