I do know that the CA AG office ignores any complaints received from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), which bars many complaints state/local LE would have received from the public about McColo. Law enforcement (in the US, anyway), by nature, is 99% reactive and 1% proactive; no complaints to LE results in no response from LE. It's hard to tell if any local/state/federal agencies knew-about/were-investigating McColo (it was the same with Intercage), but the bigger question is: does it really matter? How many cops does it take to throw a community lynching? -- Nick Nicholas R. Newman Computer Crimes Specialist National White Collar Crime Center 1000 Technology Drive, Suite 2130 Fairmont, WV 26554 1-877-628-7674 x2244 nnewman@nw3c.org -----Original Message----- From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:fergdawgster@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:54 PM To: Kee Hinckley Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: [funsec] McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams KnockedOffline (fwd) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com> wrote:
After reading this, and the (Washington Post I believe--I'm away from my laptop right now) article on this, two things are bothering me.
The article expressed a good deal of frustration with the (lack of) speed with which law enforcement has been tackling these issues. What wasn't clear was whether any attempt had been made to involve them prior to the shutdown.
Don't assume what you don't know. :-) - - ferg p.s. McColo's upstream providers are completely within their rights to terminate connectivity if they feel that they have violated their contractual terms of service. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFJGxggq1pz9mNUZTMRAsAwAKCUWdQAbTEZ+O5nWA/d1ED2fGSCQQCeJMUS PmOiEoLms6r/V1IxJqcLMlk= =2xEG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/