[71899] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr. Jeffrey Race)
Thu Jun 24 21:24:51 2004
From: "Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net>
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:24:04 +0700
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0406242130430.521@sharpie.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 21:33:35 +0000 (GMT), Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>This is true. The 'security' or 'safety' of the backbone is not affected
>by:
>1) portscaning by morons for openshares
>2) spam mail sending
>3) spam mail recieving
>
>(atleast not to my view, though I'm no lawyer, just a chemical engineer)
>
>So, the issue of termination for this reason isn't really valid. Hence the
>off-topic-ness of this thread.
Compromise to connectivity due to harboring spammers is a security
and safety issue by any reasonable definition. Being a vector for trojan
horse mechanisms is a security issue.
