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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.


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