Re: Akamai

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

--On Wednesday, June 16, 2004 11:53:23 AM +1000 Darren Reed 
<avalon () caligula anu edu au> wrote:
> This is a whole new play ground for organised crime, mostly thanks
> to Microsoft.  You've got millions of PC's around the world that
> are largely, in one way or another, susceptible to computer virii,
> making them open targets for use as minions.  And the perfect seed
> for spreading them is the databases of email addresses used by
> spammers...
If networks simply took responsibility for the traffic that comes from 
them, this problem wouldn't exist.  It's completely trivial to find 
infected hosts on a network through passive monitoring.  They should then 
be disconnected until they are properly cleaned and secured.

Unless networks begin doing this routinely (including ISPs), legislation 
will be introduced to "solve" the problem, and then we will all be much 
worse off.  There's nothing like a law to completely screw things up.

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

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