Ugh. What a disingenuous article. Like "The Internet" would really want an RIR unilaterally deciding if your allocation was for legal purposes or not.
Now, what RIPE NCC is guilty of, and others I'm sure, is allowing totally fake SWIP entries. There should be a policy akin to the domain side such that WHOIS information must be valid. Proxy/privately registered or not, it shouldn't be straight up fraudulent, the way most of the bad actors do it today. You want to talk about "one step closer to attribution", figure out who the heck is really buying these netblocks. Alex ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Vixie [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 5:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [funsec] "Russian Police And Internet Registry Accused Of Aiding Cybercrime" "Internet registry RIPE NCC turned a blind eye to cybercrime, and Russian police corruption helped the perpetrators get away with it, according to the UK Serious Organised Crime Agency" http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/russian-police-and-internet-registry-accused-of-aiding-cybercrime-2165 _______________________________________________ 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. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ 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.
