Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

Fri Jun 25 15:22:51 UTC 2004

Well said sir!

                            Scott C. McGrath

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote:

>
> > From the AOL theft article:
> >  "The revelations come as AOL and other Internet providers have
> > ramped up their efforts to track down the purveyors of spam, which
> > has grown into a maddening scourge that costs consumers and
> > businesses billions of dollars a year."
>
> Interesting. An insider at a network operator steals
> a copy of some interesting operational data and sells
> it to a 3rd party with an interest in doing nasty things
> with said data.
>
> And if Homeland Security really does require all outages
> to be reported to a clearing house where only network
> operations insiders can get access to it, then what?
> Will someone sell this to a terrorist organization?
>
> Better to leave all this information semi-public as
> it is now so that we all know it is NOT acceptable
> to build insecure infrastructure or to leave infrastructure
> in an insecure state. Fear of a terrorist attack is
> a much stronger motive for doing the right thing
> than a government order to file secret reports to
> a secret bureaucratic agency.
>
> --Michael Dillon
>