[940] in Cypherpunks
Re: CERT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Johan Helsingius)
Tue Jun 8 12:15:18 1993
To: peter honeyman <honey@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Jun 93 09:12:01 EDT."
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 93 18:21:24 +0300
From: Johan Helsingius <julf@penet.FI>
> i am disappointed to hear these stories about cert, but encourage others
> with tales to tell to step forward. this is a real eye-opener.
I just had to deal with a minor crisis caused by CERT. They contacted the
domain-admin for the *.fi domain, saying they had been informed that the
anonymous ftp archive at anon.penet.fi was being used to distribute
illegal copies of software. They did *not* contact me directly, nor my
service provider.
The last time anon.penet.fi was shut down was exactly because of
somebody contacting the domain-admin, who happens to be a person working
for a competitor to my service provider.
Fortunately I could tell them that anon.penet.fi didn't even run ftp at
all, easily verifiable by trying to ftp from anon.penet.fi. They did
apologize profusely, but somehow that doesn't quite...
julf
