[78832] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Wed Mar 23 15:38:03 2005
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:37:31 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050323162312.GA6240@gsp.org>; from Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> on Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:23:12AM -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:23:12AM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> What is the plan -- if any -- to deal with the hosting of the porn sites
> on the computers of the people who they're supposed to be blocked from?
>
> What I'm referring to is the occasional spammer tactic of downloading
> web site contents into a hijacked Windows box ("zombie") and then using
> either redirectors, or rapidly-updating DNS, or just plain old IP addresses
> in URIs to send HTTP traffic there. This seems to be a tactic of choice
> on those occasions when the content is of a dubious nature: kiddie porn,
> warez, credit card numbers, identity theft tools, that sort of thing.
"That's simple: just block inbound access to port 80 on the customer
machines!"
Cheers,
-- jra
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