Re: [funsec] McColo: Major Source of Online Scams andSpams KnockedOffline (fwd)

[Simon Waters <simonw () zynet net>]

On Wednesday 12 November 2008 21:52:12 Nick Newman wrote:
> Let's compare these two scenarios:
>
> 1. The world-wide community of people who essentially run the Internet have
> had enough with a nasty webhosting company in California.  They've
> determined that the majority of spam world-wide originates from this
> company offering bullet-proof hosting.  So they call the upstream providers
> and get them cut off. 

> 2. Some LE agency serves a search warrant for "any digital evidence" and
> collects hundreds of terabytes of worth of data.  5 years later....

These aren't mutually exclusive.

> nw3c.org

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