mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless

Mon Jul 31 18:51:25 UTC 2006

----- Original Message Follows -----
From: Paul Vixie <vixie at vix.com>

> > Today it has become (close to) completely useless. ...
> 
> i wish that the value of this activity were zero.  instead
> , it's negative. see
<http://fm.vix.com/internet/security/superbugs.html>
> for details. -- 

That's all fine and dandy until you consider the
international base of these things.  I'd like to see
"...jackbooted [US is implied in the text] government
thugs...kicking in a door somewhere and confiscating every
powered device and every living person in the building" in
China, an African country, Russia, or <insert country of
choice here>.  These things span continents and countries
and every time you cutoff the current head, it immediately
spawns another and not always in a country that cares.

scott