On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Luke S Crawford wrote:
goe...@anime.net writes:
On Fri, 8 Aug 2009, Luke S Crawford wrote:
1. are there people who apply pressure to ISPs to get them to shut down
botnets, like maps did for spam?
sadly no.
...
Why do you think this might be? Fear of (extralegal) retaliation by
botnet owners? or fear of getting sued by listed network owners? or is
the idea (shunning packets from ISPs that host botnets) fundamentally unsound?
such a list would include all of chinanet and france telecom. it would
likely not last long.
what do you do when rogue networks are state owned?
If someone sufficiently trustworthy produced a BGP feed of networks that
were unresponsive to abuse complaints, do you think other networks would use
it to block traffic?
no.
I mean, ultimately I think that having several providers of such feeds
with differing levels of aggression would be the best case, but someone
has got to go first.
consider how much time and effort it took to get intercage shut down and
you'd realize it's pretty much a lost cause.
-Dan
