goemon@anime.net writes:
On Fri, 8 Aug 2009, Luke S Crawford wrote:
1. are there people who apply pressure to ISPs to get them to shut down botnets, like maps did for spam?
sadly no.
... Why do you think this might be? Fear of (extralegal) retaliation by botnet owners? or fear of getting sued by listed network owners? or is the idea (shunning packets from ISPs that host botnets) fundamentally unsound? If someone sufficiently trustworthy produced a BGP feed of networks that were unresponsive to abuse complaints, do you think other networks would use it to block traffic? I mean, ultimately I think that having several providers of such feeds with differing levels of aggression would be the best case, but someone has got to go first. -- Luke S. Crawford http://prgmr.com/xen/ - Hosting for the technically adept http://nostarch.com/xen.htm - We don't assume you are stupid.