On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Paul Ferguson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Patrick Vande Walle writes on CircleID: > > [snip] > > I got an e-mail from someone currently attending the Internet Governance > Forum (IGF) meeting in Geneva. The e-mail ended up in my spam folder > because the IP address used for the wireless LAN at the meeting is on a > spambot/virusbot blacklist, namely cbl.abuseat.org. Apparently some guy > there has his computer infected by a spambot or a virusbot. > > Because the local host uses a NAT, all the computers share the same public > IP address. This means that all the attendees to the meeting risk seeing > their e-mails blacklisted somewhere. > > Funny this comes from the very people who would like to set up strategies > to fight cybercrime...
They are important folks and are important to causes, such as "Internet freedom of speech" and "capacity building for developing countries". Any percieved relevance to security is mistaken. > [snip] > > Ref: http://www.circleid.com/posts/igf_meeting_blacklisted/ > > Enjoy. :-) > > - - ferg > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) > > wj8DBQFI0nulq1pz9mNUZTMRAtw8AJ9zaOum9gb2S+TkBIxHP0GT2R6RhQCgyl7O > SgPd4i4Yk5RSJzoKEKwfdcs= > =NcJa > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > -- > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson > Engineering Architecture for the Internet > fergdawg(at)netzero.net > ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
