-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Mike Lewinski <mike@rockynet.com> wrote:
On a side note, now that I've gotten back on -post.... I will say that I've had pretty dismal experiences working with Law Enforcement over the years as a service provider. When you have to explain to the Feds just what IRC (for example) is, you've lost the battle :( After repeated attempts at getting what seems to be blatant criminal activity investigated, a provider might start to think "If Law Enforcement doesn't care, why should I?" (I've avoided falling into that trap, but it is frustrating to boot someone for illegal activities and see them go on to pull the same thing at another provider even after providing evidence to authorities.).
Exactly. Sometimes I think to myself that "...ISPs have Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policies, so they have the scope and tools they need to boot a 'customer" who break the rules." But all too often, it would appear, the potential loss of revenue seems to win out over enforcing those policies. And as you say, if the ISP boots them, they just set up shop elsewhere. So, back to my original question: If you alert an ISP that "bad and possibly criminal" activity is taking place by one of their customer, and they do not take corrective action (even after a year), what do you do? - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHD+XAq1pz9mNUZTMRAub9AKDGpuf2fwYYS2Q1rF/v4EtB76wr5wCcDSFY Ya7MTzjQcUJ+qL5UfSe5gw0= =2pba -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/