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Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <larrysheldon () cox net>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 19:44:35 -0500
Margie Arbon wrote:
I am curious as to why open proxies, compromised hosts, trojans and routing games are not considered operational issues simply because the vehicle being discussed is spam. With all due respect, we have a *problem*. End user machines on broadband connections are being misconfigured and/or compromised in frightening numbers. These machines are being used for everything from IRC flooder to spam engines, to DNS servers to massive DDoS infrastructure. If the ability of a teenager to launch a gb/s DDoS, or of someone DoSing mailservers off the internet with a trojan that contains a spam engine is not operational, perhaps it's just me that's confused. Two-three years ago the warnings were ignored because it was only IRC. Now it's only spam. What does it take to make the Network Operators and NANOG decide that things that are a "very bad thing" on one protocol generally can bite you later on another if you ignore it because it's only <insert your least favorite program or protocol here>?
I believe that to be one of the most succint summaries of the issues as I have read.
Current thread:
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Mike Tancsa (Oct 09)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Dr. Jeffrey Race (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Susan Harris (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Margie Arbon (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Avleen Vig (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Petri Helenius (Oct 10)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned Jeff Kell (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Susan Harris (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Sean Donelan (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Damian Gerow (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Lou Katz (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Suresh Ramasubramanian (Oct 10)