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Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help
From: John Levine <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 14 Jun 2007 18:12:22 -0000
Its not a technical problem (although engineers seem to like to think everything is), its a legal issue with Microsoft's lawyer and licenses.
I realize it's not a technical problem, although I suspect there are some technical twiddles that could help, e.g., persuading Microsoft to put the update servers in their own ASN to make it easier to put them in a sandbox. And I realize that Microsoft's combination of arrogance and naivete can make them painful to deal with. So I guess I'm glad that the FBI has told people to call their ISPs, to remind ISPs that doing nothing is not costless, and to provide an incentive to keep pushing on MS and other providers of problem software to do something about it. R's, John
Current thread:
- Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help, (continued)
- Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help Sean Donelan (Jun 14)
- Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help Owen DeLong (Jun 14)
- Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help Jim Popovitch (Jun 14)
- Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help Owen DeLong (Jun 14)
- Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help Florian Weimer (Jun 15)
- Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help Owen DeLong (Jun 15)
- Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help Florian Weimer (Jun 15)
- Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help Kevin Day (Jun 15)
- Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help Fred Baker (Jun 15)
- Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help Florian Weimer (Jun 16)
- Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help John Levine (Jun 14)
- Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help Chris Adams (Jun 14)
- Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help Patrick W. Gilmore (Jun 14)
- Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help Jeroen Massar (Jun 14)
- Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help Sean Donelan (Jun 14)
- Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help Roland Dobbins (Jun 14)
- RE: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help Frank Bulk (Jun 16)
- Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help Jeroen Massar (Jun 16)
- RE: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help Frank Bulk (Jun 16)
- Quarantining infected hosts (Was: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help) Jeroen Massar (Jun 17)
- Re: Quarantining infected hosts (Was: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help) Sean Donelan (Jun 17)