[93226] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: advise on network security report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed Nov 1 11:34:53 2006
To: Rick Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>
Cc: "Barry Greene (bgreene)" <bgreene@cisco.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:02:15 PST."
<4547F217.8000608@ar.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:33:20 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:02:15 PST, Rick Wesson said:
> would it assist if I associated a dollar value for each bot hosted, we
> can estimate the number of credit cards stolen per bot and extrapolate
> in to something with some zeros on it.
Well.. figure that if you're charging somebody by the megabyte for transit,
there *is* a positive dollar value per bot hosted.
Maybe that's the tactic to take with some of the more bot-infested cable
providers - if they aren't 100% settlement-free, point out the cost savings
at their exchanges if their outbound traffic drops because their bots aren't
spewing.....
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