Matt Hoppes wrote:
> I've now heard from several operators - our selves included - about
> getting an e-mail bomb threat to our datacenters asking for $5,000 USD
> or the "bomb will be detonated".
>
> Is this being seen on a wide spread e-mail blast to the RIR contacts,
> or am I just unlucky to know like 6 other data center folks who have
> also gotten this e-mail?
>
>  It seems like a very odd/bizarre spam/threat campaign which would
> carry significant jail time.

And now I REALLY want to get moving on a service to drop a drone on
spammers.  (Active Countermeasures!)

Miles Fidelman

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In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra

Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
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