Tag: legislation
And if you smoke, we’ll take away your oxygen.
by schwim on Jan.25, 2010, under Spam
Although it’s long been the most logical solution, this is the first time I’ve seen it seriously proposed. Australia is proposing to kick botnet zombie computers off the internet. The only ambiguous aspect of the article is they plan to determine which computers are bots. I would guess a mix of port 25 activity, a known list of “phone-home” IP’s and the like.
With some real forward thinking going on, they’re proposing that the owner of the infected computer is notified and from there, an escalation of action including slowing the connection and ending with terminating service. I imagine if the U.S. were proposing this, you’d be reading about prison time and compensation to your ISP for the lost bandwidth.
I hope it actually makes it to fruition, simply for the reason that I’m interested to see what the bot owners will do next.
