AS11296 -- Hijacked?

[gbonser at seven.com (George Bonser)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Morrow 
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 7:46 AM
> To: Rich Kulawiec
> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: AS11296 -- Hijacked?
> 
> this is still less than a /8, which lasts ~3 months in ARIN region and
> less if you could across RIR's...

Which is sort of like saying:

Citizen: "Hello, police?  There is a crate of M-16's and a truckload of
ammunition just sitting here on the corner"
Police:  "That is less than the Army goes through in 3 months ...
*click*"

While true, it is orthogonal to the point being made which is if you
collect those resources and issue them to legitimate operators, those
are some 6.6 million unique hosts addresses than cannot be used for
various nefarious activities.