[73137] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Fri Aug 13 12:29:11 2004
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 18:28:34 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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* michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us (Michel Py) [Fri 13 Aug 2004, 16:04 CEST]:
>> william(at)elan.net wrote:
>> The only imlementation change to do this would be to provide
>> a link from the webpage where user might have been redirected
>> to the original website they wanted to access
>
> But the user never wanted to access the site in the first place; lots
> of these phishing scams either promise a free something or say that the
> account will be de-activated, none of which exist. The reason to visit
> a web site never existed in reality.
Do you propose blocking goatse/tubgirl as well? The same reasoning can
apply to those sites.
-- Niels.
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