[97489] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Quarantining infected hosts (Was: FBI tells the public to call
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Jun 17 17:57:56 2007
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:57:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <467541F5.90901@spaghetti.zurich.ibm.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> For that matter, why don't ISPs start doing that: Introduce a fine. When
> somebody gets infected, and thus doesn't take good care of his/her/it's
> computer fine them. Let them pay say $25 to get fully back on the
> Internet and only allow a very slow rate of traffic in the mean time.
Please review the archives. ISPs have tried fining customers as far
back as 1997. Past attempts to hold individuals responsible
for the actions of their compromised computers result in bad press,
because eventually the individuals will be little old grandmothers on
fixed incomes whose only contact with the outside world is getting
pictures of their grandchildren via the net. Newspapers love stories
about big bad corporations picking on poor innocent grandmothers.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2004/091304widernetearthlink.html?page=1
This ISP flatfoot enjoys giving spammers the boot
Bellyaching bad guys just part of the job.
By Cara Garretson, Network World, 09/13/04
