[100022] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to Handle ISPs Who Turn a Blind Eye to Criminal Activity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Fri Oct 12 17:57:38 2007
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:56:14 GMT
To: mksmith@adhost.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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- -- Michael Smith <mksmith@adhost.com> wrote:
>We did exactly that with a similar incident and the local FBI Cyber =
Crimes folks told us that they couldn't help us because they were =
entirely dedicated to potential terrorist activities. So, I would =
say "contact local authorities and play it up as a terrorist act" if =
you want any help at all.
>
Indeed -- thanks for reminding me of that. :-)
In fact, Brian Krebs over at the Washington Post wrote a nice
article on this very issue last month:
"The cyber portion of the 2008 [FBI budget] request includes a request f=
or
$258.5 million in funding for some 659 field agents, a 1.5 percent incre=
ase
over 2007 levels. That's 659 out of a total of 11,868 FBI agents
nationwide, which would mean the FBI is on track to dedicate roughly 5.5=
percent of its agents to cyber crime investigations. But as we'll see
later, the true number may actually be lower."
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/09/is_cyber_crime_a_dist=
ant
_3rd_p.html
Cheers,
- - ferg
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Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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