[91730] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Thu Aug 10 16:38:17 2006
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>,
"Hank Nussbacher" <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:37:29 +0200
In-Reply-To: <bb0e440a0608091839t69a08956x9d432e5c81c3ace4@mail.gmail.com>
(Suresh Ramasubramanian's message of "Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:09:23
+0530")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Suresh Ramasubramanian:
> Yes, Sean - they are. But it is far, far more productive for the
> source of this abuse to be choked off. Call it the difference between
> using mosquito repellant and draining a huge pool of stagnant water
> just outside your home.
How can I, as an ISP, stop abuse that is carried out over HTTPS?
There are technological solutions for intercepting HTTPS traffic, but
I don't think we want to put them to even wider use.
