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ISP port blocking practice
- Subject: ISP port blocking practice
- From: fergdawgster at gmail.com (Paul Ferguson)
- Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 18:38:50 -0700
- In-reply-to: <8356180.642.1283735612748.JavaMail.franck@franck-martins-macbook-pro.local>
- References: <[email protected]> <8356180.642.1283735612748.JavaMail.franck@franck-martins-macbook-pro.local>
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On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Franck Martin <franck at genius.com> wrote:
> In many countries, the presence of bots consume a non-trivial amount of
> bandwidth. In developing countries, this is a non trivial amount of $$$
> (http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/09/05/1620212/UN-Tech-Group-Finds-Mo
> st-Expensive-Broadband)
>
> Blocking port 25 allows to help identify which hosts are consuming
> bandwidth (likely to have a bot). Identifying and removing these hosts
> from the network is crucial and economically viable, unfortunately these
> are skills sometimes not available in such countries.
>
> Just saying...
>
It looks like Germany is now all aboard a program regarding this:
http://www.cio.com.au/article/359491/germany_launch_antibotnet_program_cons
umers/
FYI,
- - ferg
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