[80390] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Rand)
Fri Apr 29 17:27:40 2005
From: dlr@bungi.com (Dave Rand)
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:27:09 -0700
In-Reply-To: "Steven J. Sobol"'s message on Apr 29, 17:23.
To: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
Cc: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>,
Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>, Bill Stewart <nonobvious@gmail.com>,
North American Networking and Offtopic Gripes List <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
[In the message entitled "Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden" on Apr 29, 17:23, "Steven J. Sobol" writes:]
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Dave Rand wrote:
>
> > Dunno what a ton of ISP buy-in is, but the MAPS DUL now contains about
> > 190,000,000 entries. We've been working on it very hard for the last year or
> > two. Most ISP-level subscribers figure it stops a pretty large percentage of
> > the compromised-home-computer spam.
>
> Well, that's it then: "for the last year or two" - I don't recall a lot of
> entries being on the DUL in its original incarnation. (Not for lack of
> trying.)
I'm sure there was more than one reason that it was not as large as it is
today.
Regardless, it's here, it's effective, and it is very widely used.
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