[91542] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie)
Thu Aug 3 18:55:38 2006
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 22:54:26 GMT
To: bora@broadcom.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I've got news for you.
To impact the miscreant's bottom-line, then it will take:
A) Technology, and;
B) Manpower
It will also take:
C) Better cooperative efforts.
- ferg
-- "Bora Akyol" <bora@broadcom.com> wrote:
IMHO,
This is not a problem we can solve by adding:
a) technology (other than completely dumping the OS(s) that make this
possible)
b) manpower =
I think it can be solved by reducing the margins in the miscreant
business line
or ideally having it have negative margins.
> I would suggest more specific attention by service providers =
> specifically, and everyone in general, perhaps with more =
> "abuse services" -related tracks at meetings like NANOG. :-)
> =
> Or something along those lines...
<snip>
I think better to focus on the economics of the business as part of the
abuse track.
--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
Engineering Architecture for the Internet
fergdawg(at)netzero.net
ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
