[120687] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RBN and it's spin-offs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Wed Dec 30 21:49:00 2009
In-Reply-To: <250cb16c0cf7e34cb28f86a1f41a92a5@mail.dessus.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:18:12 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf@dessus.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf@dessus.com> wrote:
>
>> Reportedly started by someone operating under the name "Flyman," RBN is
>> known as the mother of cybercrime among online investigators. Fran=C3=A7=
ois
>> 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=
businesses. =C2=A0Severe penalties (such as cutting out of the tongue or c=
utting off hands) should be dealt to anyone who releases private informatio=
n without having first ensured that such disclosure is in accordance with a=
properly obtained court order issued by a competent court in a public hear=
ing (and no, administrative tribunals are not courts of law).
>
Wow. I always knew there existed some alternate universe where the
RBN were actually the good guys. Didn't expect to find it so fast,
and on nanog at that.
--=20
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
