[95021] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: botnets: web servers, end-systems and Vint Cerf
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat Feb 17 20:18:57 2007
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:59:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0702171843330.17063-100000@linuxbox.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Gadi Evron wrote:
>> Public ISPs have been testing these types of systems for over 5 years.
>> What sorts of differences can you think of that would explain why public
>> ISPs have found them not very effective?
>>
>> Public ISPs have been using walled gardens for a long time for user
>> registration and collecting credit card information. So they know how to
>> implement walled gardens. But what happens when public ISPs use it for
>> infected machines?
>>
>
> Many already do, successfully.
>
> When I say many I actually mean I know of 6. 3 of them huge, 3 of them
> relatively small.
Interesting use of the word "many." Many people use Multics.
I know of "many" more that have tested it and returned it to various
vendors. There are several tough problems people are still trying
to solve.
