[946] in Cypherpunks
Re: CERT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren Reed)
Tue Jun 8 13:06:20 1993
From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
To: julf@penet.fi (Johan Helsingius)
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1993 02:45:07 +1000 (EST)
Cc: honey@citi.umich.edu, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9306081800.aa08835@penet.penet.FI> from "Johan Helsingius" at Jun 8, 93 06:21:24 pm
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> > 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.
[...]
> 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...
Disturbing pattern that CERT contact people about hosts which perform
actions contrary to the wishes of some MIBS. Or is that just paranoia ?
I doubt the NSA/FBI/any_other_government_agencies would be crying if
either anon.penet.fi or soda were taken off the net...
