Re: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless

["Arjan Hulsebos" <arjan.hulsebos () gmail com>]

On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:16:44 +0300, Petri Helenius wrote:
> Arjan Hulsebos wrote:
> > The ones who've been mugged don't start mugging other people, infected
> > PCs will infect other PCs. That's the difference, and that's why an
> > ISP should do something about that. Although it may be out of fashion,
> > I'd like to see good netizenship.
> SPAM as other types of abuse is easiest to control closest to the
> source, which in most cases means the consumer ISP providing the local
> access for the user.

Exactly. We, the ISPs, are the friendly (or maybe not-so-friendly at
times) neighborhood police officer. It's our network, we set the
rules, and we enforce them.

Gr,

Arjan H