[59385] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Country of Origin for Malicious Attacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Galbavy)
Fri Jun 27 07:23:05 2003
From: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>
To: "Jamie Reid" <Jamie.Reid@mbs.gov.on.ca>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:22:29 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Jamie Reid wrote:
> I'd be interested in knowing how linking aggregated attack
> information to country of
> origin is actually valuable relative to our ability to respond to it.
It mostly salves the prejudices of those who want to see certain other
countries as the enemy. My view, as most of this stuff advertises US based
'products and services' (generous description), it should really be a case
of 'follow the money' as per previous thread.
Peter
