-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Franck Martin <fra...@genius.com> wrote:
> In many countries, the presence of bots consume a non-trivial amount of > bandwidth. In developing countries, this is a non trivial amount of $$$ > (http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/09/05/1620212/UN-Tech-Group-Finds-Mo > st-Expensive-Broadband) > > Blocking port 25 allows to help identify which hosts are consuming > bandwidth (likely to have a bot). Identifying and removing these hosts > from the network is crucial and economically viable, unfortunately these > are skills sometimes not available in such countries. > > Just saying... > It looks like Germany is now all aboard a program regarding this: http://www.cio.com.au/article/359491/germany_launch_antibotnet_program_cons umers/ FYI, - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFMhEYkq1pz9mNUZTMRAkA0AJ44e0uMzlR4iXwpZAE8RQSUM3NmegCg4kV1 WOyT+X0/daNa92gGYG53Rtg= =yMOX -----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/
