botnets: web servers, end-systems and Vint Cerf

Sun Feb 18 00:59:57 UTC 2007

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Gadi Evron wrote:
>> Public ISPs have been testing these types of systems for over 5 years.
>> What sorts of differences can you think of that would explain why public
>> ISPs have found them not very effective?
>>
>> Public ISPs have been using walled gardens for a long time for user
>> registration and collecting credit card information.  So they know how to
>> implement walled gardens.  But what happens when public ISPs use it for
>> infected machines?
>>
>
> Many already do, successfully.
>
> When I say many I actually mean I know of 6. 3 of them huge, 3 of them
> relatively small.

Interesting use of the word "many."  Many people use Multics.

I know of "many" more that have tested it and returned it to various 
vendors.  There are several tough problems people are still trying
to solve.