23 Jul
2007
23 Jul
'07
8:17 p.m.
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Chris L. Morrow wrote:
So, to back this up and get off the original complaint, if a service provider can protect a large portion of their customer base with some decent intelligence gathering and security policy implementation is that a good thing? keeping in mind that in this implementation users who know enough and are willing to forgoe that 'protection' (for some value of protection) can certainly circumvent/avoid it.
Joe St Sauver covers some of these topics. http://www.uoregon.edu/~joe/zombies.pdf Should ISPs attempt to block Bot Command and Control connections (which is more general than just IRC C&C Bots), assuming ISPs try to avoid "legitimate" servers although mistakes might happen?