[78601] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IRC bots...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Sat Mar 12 20:56:50 2005
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 20:56:23 -0500
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "Bill Nash" <billn@billn.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Nash [mailto:billn@billn.net]
> Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 8:09 PM
> To: Hannigan, Martin
> Cc: Fergie (Paul Ferguson); nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: RE: IRC bots...
>=20
>=20
> On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
>=20
> > [ SNIP ]
> >
> > Who's got time for all that? Chase the controller, shut down
> > the user until they buy some AV software. We've gone beyond
> > "I didn't know" for endusers in most regions.
>=20
> Enterprise IT staff running from whip-cracking security=20
> staff, that's who=20
> has time for it.
The botnet problem is in Internet policy land, FWIW.=20
It's operational. For now. I think it's
controllable at the 'security policy' level for
corporations.
My point regarding it being the same as spam is=20
that many people are already not interested in it for=20
the same reasons as spam.=20
YMMV.
[ SNIP ]
-M<
