[100023] 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 18:08:07 2007
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:07:06 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
cc: John Kristoff <jtk@ultradns.net>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <470FD6C7.9060001@bogus.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> Gadi,
>
> Gadi Evron wrote:
>
>> The time soon approaches when we need to clean house if we are to "clean
>> the net". I suppose we may as well start with the lower-hanging fruit
>> because the very idea of cleaning the net is propostrous.
>>
>> There is no reason to gun for businesses, but if the businesses are in
>> fact criminal (which is surprisingly easily defined, think RBN), and
>> cause that much trouble, we can gun for them and feel good about it, too.
>
> Advocating vigilantism is simply not a very wise position to take.
>
> Taking the the power to determine what is and is not criminal onto
> yourself is in fact illegal in most places.
>
I quite agree!
