Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Sun May 1 16:25:52 UTC 2005


On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 02:07:17AM -0700, 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.

Ok, so here's a question for your, Dave:

do you have a procedure for entertaining requests to be excluded from
your replies from people with legitimate needs to operate MTA's, who
have been given (let us say) static addresses by their providers which
fall within a range you understand to be dialup?

(I'm assuming you include cable and DSL end-user address pools; this is
the sort of thing I'm asking about.)

Cheers,
-- jra
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