[127058] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rubens Kuhl)
Thu Jun 10 22:56:20 2010
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikfnMhnD1MnOFSiJSmHbTJJw88e4VDmKAYht4K7@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:56:04 -0300
From: Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@gmail.com>
To: Jason Lewis <jlewis@packetnexus.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> I'm ok with whatever system they provide if the functionality stays
> the same. =A0I don't understand what they gain by making a human login
> and download the file.
Accountability. If versions X and Y of database got abused (breach of
ToS), and only user U has downloaded such versions, gotcha.
Using honeytokens on the downloaded file can be interesting to quickly
connect the dots: if one of the handles on the list is
comeonspammer32767@wannahaveapieceofme.com, dynamically generated to
match a download session, and suddenly this account starts to get
spam...
Rubens
