[91811] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Sun Aug 13 17:55:01 2006
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 16:53:50 -0500
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0608131745240.28823@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Sean Donelan wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:
>
>> This morning's Omaha Weird Harold has a front-page item about the City
>> installing free wiffy hotspots around town. It may be time for you to
>> reconsider the options on the buggy-whip plant.
>
> Any information about how the City plans to solve the problem of their
> citizens using compromised PCs via their WiFi hotspots around town?
Not even any word on how they will pay for it, what with a number of
expensive vote getters^W^Wcivic projects having spent the available
money a couple of times.
But that is not really a new problem--the State of Iowa has (some time
ago) equipped the highway rest areas and there are enough Starbucks
around that you wonder why the City needs to do anything.
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