-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/12/07, Albert Meyer <from_nanog@corenap.com> wrote:
I and numerous others (including some whom any reasonable NANOG-L poster would respect and listen to) have asked you repeatedly to stop trolling NANOG-L with this botnet crap. It is off-topic here. The last time you pulled this (starting
As frequent as Gadi is with his botnet posts, insecure and wide open CPE getting deployed across a large provider is definitely operational.
Suresh is right -- if you don't think CPE compromises are an operational problem, then I'm not sure what is. :-) [changing gears] I'll even go a step further, and say that if ISPs keep punting on the whole botnet issue, and continue to think of themselves as 'common carriers' in some sense -- and continue to disengage on the issue -- then you may eventually forced to address those issues at some point in the not-so-distant future. I understand the financial disincentives, etc., but if the problem continues to grow and fester, and consumer (and financial institutions) losses grow larger, things may take a really ugly turn. $.02, - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.1 (Build 1012) wj8DBQFGRXxaq1pz9mNUZTMRArMKAJ9r5LymJwHl70u7b3XU5XzvB88WugCfWRFO jWmj4+AadZTVBwQ6VGjUmHE= =oZYK -----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/