Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

Fri Apr 29 21:27:09 UTC 2005

[In the message entitled "Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden" on Apr 29, 17:23, "Steven J. Sobol" writes:]
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Dave Rand wrote:
>  
> > Dunno what a ton of ISP buy-in is, but the MAPS DUL now contains about
> > 190,000,000 entries.  We've been working on it very hard for the last year or
> > two.  Most ISP-level subscribers figure it stops a pretty large percentage of
> > the compromised-home-computer spam.
> 
> Well, that's it then: "for the last year or two" - I don't recall a lot of 
> entries being on the DUL in its original incarnation. (Not for lack of 
> trying.)

I'm sure there was more than one reason that it was not as large as it is
today.

Regardless, it's here, it's effective, and it is very widely used.  

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