[104888] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: amazonaws.com?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Thu May 29 12:46:47 2008
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 12:44:47 -0400
To: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
In-Reply-To: <483EB3C8.30301@bogus.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On May 29, 2008 at 06:46 joelja@bogus.com (Joel Jaeggli) wrote:
> Dorn Hetzel wrote:
> > Yeah, there was a day when anyone could buy a pickup truck full of
> > ammonium nitrate fertilizer from a random feed store and not attract any
> > attention at all, now, maybe not. Just like port 25, it has plenty of
> > legitimate uses, and some more problematic ones.
>
> Equating port 25 use with domestic terrorism is specious.
>
> Ammonium nitrate requires requires some care in handling regardless of
> your intentions,see for exmple the oppau or texas city disasters.
And how different is that from the million+ strong zombie botnets? Who
owns (not pwns) those zombie'd systems and what were their intentions?
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