[71914] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@radianz.com)
Fri Jun 25 09:25:44 2004
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To: tvhawaii@shaka.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, owner-nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 14:23:24 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> From the AOL theft article:
> "The revelations come as AOL and other Internet providers have
> ramped up their efforts to track down the purveyors of spam, which
> has grown into a maddening scourge that costs consumers and
> businesses billions of dollars a year."
Interesting. An insider at a network operator steals
a copy of some interesting operational data and sells
it to a 3rd party with an interest in doing nasty things
with said data.
And if Homeland Security really does require all outages
to be reported to a clearing house where only network
operations insiders can get access to it, then what?
Will someone sell this to a terrorist organization?
Better to leave all this information semi-public as
it is now so that we all know it is NOT acceptable
to build insecure infrastructure or to leave infrastructure
in an insecure state. Fear of a terrorist attack is
a much stronger motive for doing the right thing
than a government order to file secret reports to
a secret bureaucratic agency.
--Michael Dillon
