Hack attacks

[Phil Dobbin]

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.

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