Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage [Was: RE: Washington Post: Atrivo/Intercag e, w hy are we peering with the American RBN?]

2008-09-04 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 11:08:20AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What is your price for cocaine? > > No, seriously.. If, as some estimates have it, 80% of the traffic is P2P, and > as other estimates have it, 90% of that is copyright-infringing, then if that > traffic disappears, anybody who

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage [Was: RE: Washington Post: Atrivo/Intercag e, w hy are we peering with the American RBN?]

2008-09-03 Thread bmanning
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 09:21:24AM -0500, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:48:12 -, Paul Ferguson said: > > >>Is this an issue that network operations folk don't really care > >>about? > > > >If somebody's paying you $n/megabyte for transit/c

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage [Was: RE: Washington Post: Atrivo/Intercag e, w hy are we peering with the American RBN?]

2008-09-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Eric, as you say, it is a multi part test. With fairly clear distinctions between a compromised node and one under the direct control of a criminal So while it is unrealistic when viewed in isolation, put together with other factors it starts to make a lot of sense. thanks srs On Wed, Sep 3, 200

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage [Was: RE: Washington Post: Atrivo/Intercag e, w hy are we peering with the American RBN?]

2008-09-02 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Suresh, In a parallel universe we're considering profiles for "licit use" of some mechanism. One element of a multi-part test to distinguish "licit" from "illicit" was the presence or absence of known signatures for malware. After some thought it was understood that this test was equivalent t

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage [Was: RE: Washington Post: Atrivo/Intercag e, w hy are we peering with the American RBN?]

2008-09-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
There's this concept known as "dual criminality" in such situations, when you're looking at international prosecutions (or whatever). So, while lesé majesté - insult to the king - is a crime in thailand (liable to get you lynched before you get prosecuted, at that) that doesnt mean the thai author

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage [Was: RE: Washington Post: Atrivo/Intercag e, w hy are we peering with the American RBN?]

2008-09-02 Thread Justin Shore
Paul Ferguson wrote: My next question to the peanut gallery is: What do you suggest we should do on other hosting IP blocks are are continuing to host criminal activity, even in the face of abuse reports, etc.? Seriously -- I think this is an issue which needs to be addressed here. ISPs cannot c

RE: GLBX De-Peers Intercage [Was: RE: Washington Post: Atrivo/Intercag

2008-09-01 Thread Richard Golodner
Paul Vixie said on 9/1/08 "OPN's are an unmanageable risk to all of us. Netops people generally sweep OPNs under the rug, yes." I agree completely, but how do we begin to address this problem? Words are not enough, we need some action and that action, whatever it may be will make

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage [Was: RE: Washington Post: Atrivo/Intercag e, why are we peering with the American RBN?]

2008-09-01 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- "Steven M. Bellovin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:08:20 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> a) There exist providers that are willing to take money from scum. >> b) We won't get rid of the scum until we admit (a) is true. >

RE: GLBX De-Peers Intercage [Was: RE: Washington Post: Atrivo/Intercag

2008-09-01 Thread Frank Bulk
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage [Was: RE: Washington Post: Atrivo/Intercag [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Paul Ferguson") writes: > My next question to the peanut gallery is: What do you suggest we should > do on other hosting IP blocks are are continuing to host criminal >

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage [Was: RE: Washington Post: Atrivo/Intercag

2008-09-01 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Paul Ferguson") writes: > My next question to the peanut gallery is: What do you suggest we should > do on other hosting IP blocks are are continuing to host criminal > activity, even in the face of abuse reports, etc.? depending on what you mean by "we", the immortal words of

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage [Was: RE: Washington Post: Atrivo/Intercag e, w hy are we peering with the American RBN?]

2008-09-01 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:33:21 EDT, "Steven M. Bellovin" said: > On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:08:20 -0400 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > a) There exist providers that are willing to take money from scum. > > b) We won't get rid of the scum until we admit (a) is true. > > I mostly agree with you -- but

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage [Was: RE: Washington Post: Atrivo/Intercag e, w hy are we peering with the American RBN?]

2008-09-01 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:08:20 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a) There exist providers that are willing to take money from scum. b) We won't get rid of the scum until we admit (a) is true. I mostly agree with you -- but I get very worried about who defines "scum". Wh

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage [Was: RE: Washington Post: Atrivo/Intercag e, w hy are we peering with the American RBN?]

2008-09-01 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:08:20 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > a) There exist providers that are willing to take money from scum. > b) We won't get rid of the scum until we admit (a) is true. I mostly agree with you -- but I get very worried about who defines "scum". Consider the following cases,

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage [Was: RE: Washington Post: Atrivo/Intercag e, w hy are we peering with the American RBN?]

2008-09-01 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:21:24 CDT, "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." said: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:48:12 -, Paul Ferguson said: > > >> Is this an issue that network operations folk don't really care > >> about? > > > > If somebody's paying you $n/megabyte for transit/con

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage [Was: RE: Washington Post: Atrivo/Intercag e, w hy are we peering with the American RBN?]

2008-09-01 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:48:12 -, Paul Ferguson said: Is this an issue that network operations folk don't really care about? If somebody's paying you $n/megabyte for transit/connectivity, what's your incentive to make them clean up their act and get rid of their P2

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage

2008-09-01 Thread William Waites
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 08-09-01 à 12:34, Gadi Evron a écrit : Workeable suggestions? So far I've seen, * organized shunning * BGP blacklists I can see the "don't be the Internet's firewall" bunch jumping up and out of their seats, spilling their cof

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage

2008-09-01 Thread Gadi Evron
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, William Waites wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 08-09-01 à 12:18, Adrian Chadd a écrit : Oh come on, how quickly would that migrate to enforcing copyright infringement? Or if you're especially evil, used by larger companies to bully smaller companies

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage

2008-09-01 Thread William Waites
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 08-09-01 à 12:18, Adrian Chadd a écrit : Oh come on, how quickly would that migrate to enforcing copyright infringement? Or if you're especially evil, used by larger companies to bully smaller companies out of precious IPv4 space? With appropri

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage

2008-09-01 Thread Gadi Evron
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Adrian Chadd wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2008, William Waites wrote: As mentioned in private email, I think where there is *evidence* of *criminal* activity, show this to a judge, get the judge to order ARIN to revoke the ASN/netblock, the traffic then becomes bogon and can/ shou

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage

2008-09-01 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008, William Waites wrote: > As mentioned in private email, I think where there is *evidence* of > *criminal* activity, show this to a judge, get the judge to order ARIN > to revoke the ASN/netblock, the traffic then becomes bogon and can/ > should be filtered. Oh come on, how qu

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage

2008-09-01 Thread William Waites
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 08-09-01 à 10:48, Paul Ferguson a écrit : My next question to the peanut gallery is: What do you suggest we should do on other hosting IP blocks are are continuing to host criminal activity, even in the face of abuse reports, etc.? As mentione

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage

2008-09-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* > On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 05:36:47AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Serious question, that - how many long-haul providers would be in serious >> trouble if all the spam and filesharing suddenly stopped and only legitimate >> traffic travelled through their pipes? > > define "legitim

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage [Was: RE: Washington Post: Atrivo/Intercag e, w hy are we peering with the American RBN?]

2008-09-01 Thread bmanning
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 05:36:47AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Serious question, that - how many long-haul providers would be in serious > trouble if all the spam and filesharing suddenly stopped and only legitimate > traffic travelled through their pipes? define "legitimate" --b

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage [Was: RE: Washington Post: Atrivo/Intercag e, w hy are we peering with the American RBN?]

2008-09-01 Thread Gadi Evron
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Paul Ferguson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- "Paul Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -- "Marc Sachs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS27595&v=4&view=2.0 My only concern here is that by the publicit

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage [Was: RE: Washington Post: Atrivo/Intercag e, w hy are we peering with the American RBN?]

2008-09-01 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:48:12 -, Paul Ferguson said: > My next question to the peanut gallery is: What do you > suggest we should do on other hosting IP blocks are are continuing > to host criminal activity, even in the face of abuse reports, etc.? > > Seriously -- I think this is an issue whi

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage [Was: RE: Washington Post: Atrivo/Intercag e, w hy are we peering with the American RBN?]

2008-09-01 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- "Paul Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-- "Marc Sachs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>http://cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS27595&v=4&view=2.0 > >My only concern here is that by the publicity this issue continues >to receive, these a

Re: GLBX De-Peers Intercage [Was: RE: Washington Post: Atrivo/Intercage, w hy are we peering with the American RBN?]

2008-08-29 Thread Gadi Evron
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Paul Ferguson wrote: I applaud GLBX's move to disconnect Atrivo/Intercage. What the Armin/McQuaid/Jonkman report [1] documented are activities that many of us in the security community have known for a couple of years. One thing that Krebs _didn't_ mention in his WaPo artic

GLBX De-Peers Intercage [Was: RE: Washington Post: Atrivo/Intercage, w hy are we peering with the American RBN?]

2008-08-29 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- "Marc Sachs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Unless I'm mis-reading this (or perhaps GBLX read Kreb's story and said >good-bye to Atrivo/Intercage), it looks like they are no longer their >upstream: > >http://cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS27