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Re: How to Handle ISPs Who Turn a Blind Eye to Criminal Activity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Oct 12 13:52:00 2007
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:51:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20071012.001848.11807.3@webmail03.vgs.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Paul Ferguson wrote:
> The most obvious answer is: Gather evidence, contact law
> enforcement.
Other than being provactively phrased, its often the same reason:
e.g. what about anti-virus vendors who turn a blind eye to criminal
activity by poor detection to new/old viruses, what about law enforcement
who turn a blind eye to criminal activity by poor response to new/old
scams, what about software programmers who turn a blind eye to criminal
activity by poor response to new/old bugs, what about banks who turn a
blind eye to criminal activity by poor response to new/old reports of
fraud, etc.
Law enforcement, security vendors, abuse departments try to move as fast
as they can for as many cases as they can. Yes, there are some bad cops,
bad security venders, bad abuse departments; but there are also a lot of
people who are trying to help as many people as possible.
And without knowing the full story, its sometimes difficult to figure
out what is reallying happening:
<http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-908647.html>
