Well I believe turning the records over falls under the Patriot Act as this is a national security issue. These bots can be used to target any domain, including military domains. Just targeting the major players like AOL will take care a major chunk of the infected machines.
Secondly, this IS crime. Some of these major offenders are foreign Russian mobsters. The FBI uses the same contractors that write highly sophisticated military software, so capability is not an issue. --- Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/15/07, Michael Madigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > If these people > > By that, you mean "us" > > > could be infected with spam bots, > > wouldn't it make sense that they could be > innoculated > > by a FBI anti-spambot program? > > You seem to be assuming the the FBI could, with > federal-wage workers, > or lowest-bid contractors, write a program that > would be more clever > than every pimply--faced thirteen year old geek on > the planet, as well > as their very good professional counterparts. And > you want the FBI > doing this while they ought to be capturing > criminals, too. > > Such a program exists. It's called "Mac OS X." > There's another one > called "Linux." > > > Anyway, I wonder why contacting these people > hadn't > > been done earlier given the fact that they know > the > > originating IPs of the infected computers. > > I tell you what: I'll give you the IP addresses of > 30 million people, > and you look them up, get their ISPs to turn over > their cusomer > records, and give them all a call. Can you have that > done by 10 AM? > Mmm, yeah. > > -- > Ted Roche > Ted Roche & Associates, LLC > http://www.tedroche.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > Searchable Archive: > http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, > are the opinions of the author, and do not > constitute legal or medical advice. This statement > is added to the messages for those lawyers who are > too stupid to see the obvious. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
