[91658] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arjan Hulsebos)
Wed Aug 9 17:38:44 2006
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:38:10 +0200
From: "Arjan Hulsebos" <arjan.hulsebos@gmail.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:16:44 +0300, Petri Helenius wrote:
>Arjan Hulsebos wrote:
>>
>> The ones who've been mugged don't start mugging other people, infected
>> PCs will infect other PCs. That's the difference, and that's why an
>> ISP should do something about that. Although it may be out of fashion,
>> I'd like to see good netizenship.
>SPAM as other types of abuse is easiest to control closest to the
>source, which in most cases means the consumer ISP providing the local
>access for the user.
Exactly. We, the ISPs, are the friendly (or maybe not-so-friendly at
times) neighborhood police officer. It's our network, we set the
rules, and we enforce them.
Gr,
Arjan H
