[120678] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: RBN and it's spin-offs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith Medcalf)
Wed Dec 30 17:30:53 2009
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:30:13 -0500
In-Reply-To: <775e001a0912301402h1fc005awc829e843e82276af@mail.gmail.com>
From: "Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf@dessus.com>
To: "Bruce Williams" <williams.bruce@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Reportedly started by someone operating under the name "Flyman," RBN is
> known as the mother of cybercrime among online investigators. Fran=E7ois
> Paget, senior expert for the McAfee company, says that RBN began as an
> Internet provider and offered "impenetrable" hosting for $600 a month.
> This meant a guarantee that it would not give out information about
> its clients, no matter what business they were in.
This is a commendable position and one that should be the default for all b=
usinesses. Severe penalties (such as cutting out of the tongue or cutting =
off hands) should be dealt to anyone who releases private information witho=
ut having first ensured that such disclosure is in accordance with a proper=
ly obtained court order issued by a competent court in a public hearing (an=
d no, administrative tribunals are not courts of law).
