[17910] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Government scrutiny is headed our way
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Tue Jun 16 23:25:59 1998
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 23:10:43 -0400
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@shell.nacs.net>
To: Jamie Scheinblum <jamie@fast.net>
Cc: "'Karl Denninger'" <karl@mcs.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4DB4BFFE4768D011954E0000C0815AEDFD041C@fnbdc1.youtools.com>; from Jamie Scheinblum on Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 10:33:29PM -0400
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 10:33:29PM -0400, Jamie Scheinblum wrote:
> And then you'll get wrapped up in the court-case, probably lose the case
> since they'll be able to hire better lawyers and fight it out longer, the
> judge/jury will have no idea what your talking about, and you'll still be
> the victim of the smurf attacks. My guess is, you won't get far this way.
> Too many people to sue.
>
> I still like the idea of running a scan of the entire IP space, as expensive
> and tiring it would be, and inject them all into the RBL.
Nice idea, but one of limited usefulness - not everyone uses the RBL
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