[80292] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adi Linden)
Thu Apr 28 10:11:46 2005
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:09:16 -0500
From: Adi Linden <adil@adis.on.ca>
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
Cc: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>,
NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0504280127200.15914-100000@sasami.anime.net>
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> Its not up to the ISP to determine outbound malicious traffic, but its up
> to the ISP to respond in a timely manner to complaints. Many (most?) do not.
If they did their support costs would explode. It is block the customer,
educate the customer why they were blocked, exterminate the customers PC,
unblock the customer. No doubt there'll be a repeat of the same in short
time.
Adi
