[96514] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How many others are nullrouting BT?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@pilosoft.com)
Sat May 12 08:43:00 2007
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 08:42:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@pilosoft.com
To: Jo Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <E27F5F98-2B35-4ADC-BF39-75AF24ECF3A3@svcolo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Jo Rhett wrote:
>
> We've long been aware that BT *never* deals with spammers or DoS
> attacks that originate from their network, but a new issue has come
> to light. BT has a number of users who are apparently testing out
> stolen credit card numbers from their network against stores of all
> flavors.
>
> 3 months of attempts by US banks, US police departments, FBI, etc to
> get any action taken on these issues has gone nowhere. BT is
> "protecting the interests of their users". Meanwhile the stolen
> credit card attempts continue unabated.
>
> We're considering null-routing all BT netblocks. I'm wondering how
> many others have already come to the same conclusion?
To paraphrase bandy rush: "I encourage my competitors to do that".
-alex
