Re: How many others are nullrouting BT?

[alex () pilosoft com]

On Fri, 11 May 2007, Jo Rhett wrote:

> We've long been aware that BT *never* deals with spammers or DoS  
> attacks that originate from their network, but a new issue has come  
> to light.  BT has a number of users who are apparently testing out  
> stolen credit card numbers from their network against stores of all  
> flavors.
>
> 3 months of attempts by US banks, US police departments, FBI, etc to  
> get any action taken on these issues has gone nowhere.  BT is  
> "protecting the interests of their users".  Meanwhile the stolen  
> credit card attempts continue unabated.
>
> We're considering null-routing all BT netblocks.  I'm wondering how  
> many others have already come to the same conclusion?
To paraphrase bandy rush: "I encourage my competitors to do that".

-alex