On 11/19/2012 12:04 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> Indeed. Most of the time they are not going to give a crap about a >> simple abuse report, let alone do anything to stop spam/bruteforcing. >> >> Maybe the American and British ISPs but not the others. > > The ISPs are mostly not in the loop, but some of them certainly do care > or collate reports. The end business is also likely to care especially > as in Europe there have now been successful lawsuits for negligence > against companies who left 0wned machines knowingly online unfixed. > > (I'm amazed the US hasn't been busy with such things as I usually think > of 'someone must be at fault, someone must be sued' as a US tradition) The only way to get the USA interested is to mention that the boxes in question are full of MP3s & DVDs... Cheers, Phil. -- currently (ab)using CentOS 5.8 & 6.3, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy, OS X Snow Leopard & Ubuntu Precise & Quantal
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