North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes
Margie Arbon wrote: > I am curious as to why open proxies, compromised hosts, trojans and > routing games are not considered operational issues simply because > the vehicle being discussed is spam. > > With all due respect, we have a *problem*. End user machines on > broadband connections are being misconfigured and/or compromised in > frightening numbers. These machines are being used for everything > from IRC flooder to spam engines, to DNS servers to massive DDoS > infrastructure. If the ability of a teenager to launch a gb/s DDoS, > or of someone DoSing mailservers off the internet with a trojan that > contains a spam engine is not operational, perhaps it's just me > that's confused. > > Two-three years ago the warnings were ignored because it was only > IRC. Now it's only spam. What does it take to make the Network > Operators and NANOG decide that things that are a "very bad thing" on > one protocol generally can bite you later on another if you ignore it > because it's only <insert your least favorite program or protocol > here>? I believe that to be one of the most succint summaries of the issues as I have read.
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