[71990] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP list of phishing sites?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Mon Jun 28 14:20:50 2004
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 21:20:11 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Simon Lockhart <simon.lockhart@bbc.co.uk>
Cc: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040628174323.GF18167@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Simon Lockhart wrote:
> It's wholy unfair to the innocent parties affected by the blacklisting.
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>i.e. the collateral damage.
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YouŽll get burned anyway in a bad neighborhood because of the bandwidth
consumed by the crap.
>Say a phising site is "hosted" by geocities. Should geocities IP addresses
>be added to the blacklist?
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>What if it made it onto an akamaized service? Should all of akamai be
>blacklisted?
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As with any list, whitelisting space that takes care of complaints is
always an option.
>LINX produced a paper recently on why BGP poisoning is exactly the wrong
>answer to removing access to undesirable web content (i.e. phising sites).
>I've asked if it can be made public.
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Looking forward to it.
Pete