[118593] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Interesting Point of view - Russian police and RIPE accused of
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Sat Oct 24 05:39:08 2009
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: a.harrowell@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:38:31 +0200
In-Reply-To: <trkkp5GC33j3.8knz5pDp@smtp.gmail.com> (a. harrowell's message of
"Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:11:33 +0100")
Cc: "Martin, Paul" <Paul.Martin@viatel.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
* a. harrowell:
> It ought to be superfluous to point out that the only effective
> action taken against RBN was by the Internet community in getting
> all their upstreams to null route them. As is blindingly obvious,
> SOCA would never have been granted a warrant by the Russians.
Ugh, in reality, they needed a warrant from the Metropolitan Police
(which could have been equally problematic).