[100001] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to Handle ISPs Who Turn a Blind Eye to Criminal Activity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Fri Oct 12 13:59:28 2007
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:58:10 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0710121335400.17667@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> 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.
For once, we are not talking about what good guys can do better, but about
criminals.
> 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>
>
