[98027] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Jul 23 17:56:50 2007
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:49:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200707232035.l6NKZBSr069591@aurora.sol.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Joe Greco wrote:
>> Please enlighten me.
>
> Intercept and inspect IRC packets. If they join a botnet channel, turn on
> a flag in the user's account. Place them in a garden (no IRC, no nothing,
> except McAfee or your favorite AV/patch set).
Wow, you are recommending ISPs wiretap their subscribers.
I suspect some privacy advocates will be upset with ISPs doing that.