[76153] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Thu Dec 2 15:59:46 2004
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:58:03 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <20041202202148.GL26490@hesketh.com>
To: Steven Champeon <schampeo@hesketh.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Steven Champeon wrote:
>
> on Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:56:29PM -0500, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
> > Possibly. What will happen if the Lycos botnet gets hijacked?
> >
> > The conversations between the clients and the servers don't appear
> > to be keyed. If a million clients got owned, it would be the
> > equivalent of an electronic Bubonic Plague with no antidote.
>
> You mean, like the existing botnets we already know exist but are
> already under the control of spammers?
>
> What's the difference? Why is everyone so upset about Lycos and nobody
> seems to be doing much of anything about the /existing botnets/, which
> conservative estimates[1] already put at anywhere from 1-3K per botnet
> to upwards of 1-5M hosts total[2]?
perhaps the difference is 'reponsible people' don't go out and recruit
botnets... Lycos, as a corporate entity with it's business model dependent
upon the health and wellbeing of the Internet would try to be
'responsible', or so I would have thought.
arguing that there are murderers and rapists out there and that 'nothing
is being done' is hardly reason to become one yourself.
-Chris
