[91467] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Mon Jul 31 15:19:16 2006
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
Reply-To: surfer@mauigateway.com
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:51:25 -1000
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
----- Original Message Follows -----
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
> > Today it has become (close to) completely useless. ...
>
> i wish that the value of this activity were zero. instead
> , it's negative. see
<http://fm.vix.com/internet/security/superbugs.html>
> for details. --
That's all fine and dandy until you consider the
international base of these things. I'd like to see
"...jackbooted [US is implied in the text] government
thugs...kicking in a door somewhere and confiscating every
powered device and every living person in the building" in
China, an African country, Russia, or <insert country of
choice here>. These things span continents and countries
and every time you cutoff the current head, it immediately
spawns another and not always in a country that cares.
scott
