Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-15 Thread Rob Nelson
Eventually all the bad customers end up with the same ISP, then filtering is as easy as running loose uRPF and filtering on their AS on input. And that's why we can all safely dump anything from aol.com into /dev/null, right? ;) Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-14 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Owen DeLong) [Sun 13 Jun 2004, 18:38 CEST]: I'd much rather see the people who don't pay for security get disconnected when abuse spews forth from their network. Then, they should have to clean up their site and pay a cleanup fee to get reconnected. ... To their new

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-14 Thread Michael . Dillon
8 to 10 years ago the discussions were dominated by Karl D(1), where *everything* was defined as to whether is was actionable or not. Googling for Karl Denninger and actionable only gets 30 hits but, oh the nostalgia of it all... Check out http://www.denninger.net to see that he is still

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-14 Thread Petri Helenius
Niels Bakker wrote: ... To their new ISP, which they will very likely move to, after getting disconnected one time too many by their old one? After round three, this will have changed the current setup how? (Except that the then-negligent ISPs have ended up with all the income.) Eventually all

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-14 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Mon 14 Jun 2004, 12:20 CEST]: Check out http://www.denninger.net to see that he is still alive and kicking and protesting one thing or another. Would you buy an anti-spam solution from a man that requires the inclusion of certain keywords in the subject

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-14 Thread Henry Linneweh
Wow he has changed and toned down a lot from those days -Henry --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 8 to 10 years ago the discussions were dominated by Karl D(1), where *everything* was defined as to whether is was actionable or not. Googling for Karl Denninger and actionable only gets 30

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-14 Thread Owen DeLong
No... The negligent ISPs end up with all the abusing customers and have a hard time getting transit themselves. Eventually, you end up with two internets... One run by and for the abusers and negligent, one for everyone else. I have no problem with that. Owen pgpRbSMzhv6Mo.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-14 Thread George Roettger
- Original Message - From: Adi Linden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Clean internet is more than just valid IP datagrams to my IP address. If I connect to my ISP and do nothing beyond that, not a single packet, I expect to not receive any packets either. If I initiate a GET request to a web

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-14 Thread Geoincidents
- Original Message - From: Adi Linden [EMAIL PROTECTED] if I send an ISP reasonable proof that a broadband customer hits my mailserver with thousands of emails an hour I should be able to expect an immediate response. Not hours, days or weeks, minutes and the originating account

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-14 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Owen DeLong wrote: No... The negligent ISPs end up with all the abusing customers and have a hard time getting transit themselves. Eventually, you end up with two internets... One run by and for the abusers and negligent, one for everyone else. I have no problem with that. There should be a

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-14 Thread Owen DeLong
A response doesn't mean the ISP doesn't also investigate. Reasonable proof is reasonable proof. The logs are a good start, but, the ISP should review his own logs, and, check the currently active traffic patterns too. If there isn't any evidence, the ISP shouldn't shut the customer down. If

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-14 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Petri Helenius) [Mon 14 Jun 2004, 13:07 CEST]: Niels Bakker wrote: ... To their new ISP, which they will very likely move to, after getting disconnected one time too many by their old one? After round three, this will have changed the current setup how? (Except that the

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-14 Thread Petri Helenius
Niels Bakker wrote: Except that the majority of people may have ended up at such ISPs (note plural). Can you afford not to talk to them? Majority of people living in bad neighborhoods would be news. I´ll take sides if that happens. For how long did you stick with just UUCP after SMTP entered

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-14 Thread Paul S. Brown
On Monday 14 June 2004 21:35, Petri Helenius wrote: Niels Bakker wrote: Except that the majority of people may have ended up at such ISPs (note plural). Can you afford not to talk to them? Majority of people living in bad neighborhoods would be news. I´ll take sides if that happens. For

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-14 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Paul S. Brown wrote: On Monday 14 June 2004 21:35, Petri Helenius wrote: Niels Bakker wrote: Except that the majority of people may have ended up at such ISPs (note plural). Can you afford not to talk to them? Majority of people living in bad neighborhoods

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-14 Thread Niels Bakker
Niels Bakker wrote: Except that the majority of people may have ended up at such ISPs (note plural). Can you afford not to talk to them? For how long did you stick with just UUCP after SMTP entered the scene? * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher L. Morrow) [Mon 14 Jun 2004, 23:35 CEST]: I

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-14 Thread Randy Bush
i support four sites uucp over tcp, and i don't really know why they want it. i support one with good old-fashioned dial-up pots uucp. randy

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-14 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Niels Bakker wrote: Niels Bakker wrote: Except that the majority of people may have ended up at such ISPs (note plural). Can you afford not to talk to them? For how long did you stick with just UUCP after SMTP entered the scene? * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-13 Thread Paul Vixie
... If we give some people an option to opt-out, most grandmothers will probably follow Paul's example and save the few bucks every month and not use the security features. Should ISPs charge for security like the Universial Service Fund fee on your telephone bill, everyone (not just

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-13 Thread Adi Linden
The better analogy is what happens when you leave your oven on for 8 days straight? Assuming your house doesn't burn down, should you have to pay the electric bill for those 8 days? Hell yeah. It's impossible to separate what was legit energy use and what was from the oven, and it's not

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-13 Thread Owen DeLong
--On Saturday, June 12, 2004 1:17 PM -0500 Adi Linden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's like saying provide safe electricity. If someone has a toaster where the wire cracks and they electrocute themselves, or a hair dryer that isn't safe in the bathtub, do you complain that the electric company

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-13 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004, Adi Linden wrote: The reason this isn't economical today is because ISP lack any responsiblity. It is cheaper for an ISP to buy more bandwidth and pass the worms and viruses customers PCs spew to the internet than it is to deal with the problem. Seriously, if I send

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-13 Thread Owen DeLong
I'd much rather see the people who don't pay for security get disconnected when abuse spews forth from their network. Then, they should have to clean up their site and pay a cleanup fee to get reconnected. Perhaps what is needed is a reporting agency, similar to the credit reporting agencies,

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-13 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Owen DeLong) writes: Perhaps what is needed is a reporting agency, similar to the credit reporting agencies, where ISPs can register chronic problem-customers. Eventually, your internet credit rating deteriorates to the point that no ISP will offer you service. it is with

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-13 Thread Adi Linden
The reason this isn't economical today is because ISP lack any responsiblity. It is cheaper for an ISP to buy more bandwidth and pass the worms and viruses customers PCs spew to the internet than it is to deal with the problem. Seriously, if I send an ISP reasonable proof that a

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-13 Thread Owen DeLong
And that is a problem. Unlike your electricity, where the supplier has an obligation to provide a certain level of clean energy, there is nothing like it with internet bandwidth. All the crud and exploits are dutyfully forwarded to the customer. Clean internet service is internet service that

yo, sean!! (Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be)

2004-06-13 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adrian Chadd) writes: ... I WANT my ISP to require more than just some third party saying holy crap, someone's spitting out crap at me. Suspend!. Obviously you've not been handed Norton Personal firewall logs which CONCLUSIVELY PROVE, as far as the user is concerned, that

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-13 Thread John Curran
Paul, Actually, credit agencies don't have a single standard for what bad is; they are obligated to only keep factual data (as can be best determined) in the files. When you cause a credit report to be checked, one or more algorithms are used to score your credit, but the

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-13 Thread Doug White
: : My arguments are in respect to broadband connections to homes and offices : without IT department, firewalls or cluefulness. If you own your own IP : space you'd be considered an ISP, buying transit rather than broadband : home DSL. What the physical wire looks like the service is delivered

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-13 Thread Owen DeLong
As I said earlier in private mail to John, I think this will only work if the reporting is done on indivuduals, not companies. For non-corporate business entities, the president of the company should be used as a stand-in for the company. For corporate business entities, the CEO or chairman of

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-13 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
[edited to fix top posting; snipped for bandwidth] John Curran wrote: At 4:50 PM + 6/13/04, Paul Vixie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Owen DeLong) writes: Perhaps what is needed is a reporting agency, similar to the credit reporting agencies, where ISPs can register chronic

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-13 Thread Adi Linden
My arguments are in respect to broadband connections to homes and offices without IT department, firewalls or cluefulness. If you own your own IP space you'd be considered an ISP, buying transit rather than broadband home DSL. What the physical wire looks like the service is delivered on

OT Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-12 Thread Peter Galbavy
Or, go see the movie Super Size Me - you might just give up McDonald's entirely, reducing your risk of burns from their overheated coffee. :) Haven't been in one on over 2 years - and not through any great principal, I just stopped. Odd how our tastes change with age ;-) Peter

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-12 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Paul Vixie wrote: in any other industry, you (the isp) would do a simple risk analysis and start treating the cause rather than the symptom. What other industry do you know where you are expected to fix products you didn't sell and didn't cause for free? Should we revoke

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-12 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jonathan Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 3:32 PM Subject: Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked) http://lawandhelp.com/q298-2.htm while i

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-12 Thread Petri Helenius
Sean Donelan wrote: and you would certainly not offer your services without a clear idea of how to reach the customer and assist them in getting out of cyberjail -- Done. Effectiveness? If you do this and keep them there until they are fixed, your network should qualify as a good

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-12 Thread Adi Linden
Been there, done that. Got any new ideas? Provide a safe network connection. I believe an ISP should provide a safe environment to play, assuming the customer is innocent granny. Your average DSL network connection should be safe by default, so a default Win98 (or any other OS) can be

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-12 Thread Paul S. Brown
On Saturday 12 June 2004 14:53, Adi Linden wrote: Been there, done that. Got any new ideas? Provide a safe network connection. I believe an ISP should provide a safe environment to play, assuming the customer is innocent granny. Your average DSL network connection should be safe by

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-12 Thread Geoincidents
- Original Message - From: Adi Linden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Provide a safe network connection. I believe an ISP should provide a safe environment to play, assuming the customer is innocent granny. Your average DSL network connection should be safe by default, so a default Win98 (or any

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-12 Thread Mark Kent
Maybe I'm a little slow on the draw, but I've just now realized that we've come full circle, in a strange sort of way. 8 to 10 years ago the discussions were dominated by Karl D(1), where *everything* was defined as to whether is was actionable or not. Now the discussions are dominated by many

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-12 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean Donelan) writes: in any other industry, you (the isp) would do a simple risk analysis and start treating the cause rather than the symptom. What other industry do you know where you are expected to fix products you didn't sell and didn't cause for free? risk

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-12 Thread Adi Linden
The problem with this is one of who pays for it. The customer. You are talking about an environment where the newcomers and non-experts require significantly more intervention in how things are done and what they can do than the more experienced hands. I am talking about an environment

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-12 Thread Adi Linden
That's like saying provide safe electricity. If someone has a toaster where the wire cracks and they electrocute themselves, or a hair dryer that isn't safe in the bathtub, do you complain that the electric company should provide safe electricity? The problem with all the comparisions is

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-12 Thread Petri Helenius
Adi Linden wrote: To compare this with the electricity company, the average home with a 200A service is equivalent to NATed and firewalled internet bandwidth. As your electricity demands grow (for whatever reason) the electricity company upgrades your service, to 3 phase, 600V, whatever. Same

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-12 Thread Adi Linden
If we would properly follow the analogy above, ISPs should provide a security fuse which would disconnect the user when blown. Paul called this cyberjail if I follow his thoughts. All efforts above this should be charged separately or be part of better general level of service. You can

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-12 Thread Paul Vixie
So you claim even the ISPs you ran yourself have never attempted to do any of these things? the last access-side isp i had anything to do with running used uucp and shell and was just getting going on c-slip when i pushed off. (i assure that any rmail or rnews spam was grounds for suspension

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-12 Thread Rob Nelson
To compare this with the electricity company, the average home with a 200A service is equivalent to NATed and firewalled internet bandwidth. As your electricity demands grow (for whatever reason) the electricity company upgrades your service, to 3 phase, 600V, whatever. Same with internet

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-12 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Paul Vixie wrote: If you didn't do them, why do you think other people should? so you aren't going to google for chemical polluter business model, huh? I hope you also google for Nonpoint Source Pollution. ISPs don't put the pollution in the water, ISPs are trying to

RE: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-12 Thread David Schwartz
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Paul Vixie wrote: If you didn't do them, why do you think other people should? so you aren't going to google for chemical polluter business model, huh? I hope you also google for Nonpoint Source Pollution. ISPs don't put the pollution in the water, ISPs are

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-12 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Paul Vixie wrote: Send me your root passwords. Trust me. you should offer this service. most of us would urge our parents' generation to sign up for it. (i hope you weren't joking.) As you keep pointing out, a problem with current Internet security is its opt-in

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-12 Thread Paul Vixie
so you aren't going to google for chemical polluter business model, huh? I hope you also google for Nonpoint Source Pollution. ISPs don't put the pollution in the water, ISPs are trying to clean up the water polluted by others. ISPs are spending a lot of money cleaning up problems

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-12 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Schwartz) writes: ISPs don't put the pollution in the water, ISPs are trying to clean up the water polluted by others. ISPs are spending a lot of money cleaning up problems created by other people. ISPs do put the pollution in the water. They own/run the

Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Sean Donelan
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, David Schwartz wrote: generated by a worm. The ISP had an obligation to stop this traffic with filters or customer disconnection. They may or may not have complied with their obligation. Either way, it's hard to see why the customer should pay for traffic the ISP did not

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Randy Bush
we americans do not readily accept responsibility for our [in]actions. we sue for being hit by a baseball while attending a game. we sue for spilling hot coffee on ourselves. we sue when we walki into open trenches and manholes. and we self-righteously torture, commit war crimes, and murder,

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Adi Linden
If your child borrows your credit card, and makes lots of unathorized charges, you may not have to pay more than $50; but the bank can go after your son or daughter for the money. Most parents end up paying, even if they didn't authorize their children to use the credit card. So the credit

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Henry Linneweh
Scalable bandwidth is not new and is charged for, what is the issue about that? If the network is compromised and it is on the client end, that is what business insurance is for, so that everyone gets their's (payments, otherwise other types of arrangements need to be made, according to the

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Jonathan Nichols
attending a game. we sue for spilling hot coffee on ourselves. http://lawandhelp.com/q298-2.htm Interesting reading on that whole woman sues for spilling hot coffee on herself story. Sometimes there's a LOT more to the tale. :)

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Randy Bush
http://lawandhelp.com/q298-2.htm while i am no fan of macdonalds, and a good case is made for their negligence, perhaps you should follow the advice at the bottom of that web page The most important message this case has for you, the consumer, is to be aware of the potential danger

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Randy Bush wrote: http://lawandhelp.com/q298-2.htm while i am no fan of macdonalds, and a good case is made for their negligence, perhaps you should follow the advice at the bottom of that web page The most important message this case has for you, the consumer, is to be aware of the

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-11 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean Donelan) writes: ... Why do so many people ignore their ISP when told about problems with their computer? My computer can't be infected, I have a firewall. in any other industry, you (the isp) would do a simple risk analysis and start treating the cause rather than

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-11 Thread Randy Bush
alas. on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog. http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0405/msg00057.html