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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Wise)
Wed May 23 02:15:19 2012
From: Michael J Wise <mjwise@kapu.net>
In-Reply-To: <m2bolfbg8r.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 23:14:41 -0700
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On May 22, 2012, at 10:47 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>>> When those servers are turned off, Customer Support folks at many
>>> ISPs will prolly want to take their accrued vacation.
>> Amen. And there will be thousands more of them when the court order
>> expires than existed when the Feds called him in.
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> they could extend the court order, or prolong the do-gooder hack =
longer
> under some other pretext, increasing the underlying problem further.
> more infected machines and more job creation for front line support =
when
> the whitewash finally stops.
According to the pretty graphs, the number of machines querying the =
aforementioned infrastructure is going down.
Just not as fast as pretty much everyone would prefer=85
and the DOJ is footing the bill, and grows tired of it.
So at some point, the lights are gonna be turned off.
It's a shame the ISPs who have the infected users have done less to =
mitigate the issue.
And many solutions were suggested, but all of them ended up being =85 =
perceived to be worse than just shutting it down.
Or so I recall the presentation that Paul gave to a bunch of us in San =
Francisco back in February.
Aloha,
Michael.
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