[funsec] McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline

[Rich Kulawiec]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:19:00PM -0800, Paul Ferguson quoted:
> On Monday, Security Fix contacted the Internet providers that manage more
> than 90 percent of the company's connection to the larger Internet,
> sending them information about badness at McColo as documented by the

And that's the most interesting part of the story. Clearly, many of us
"out here" could see that McColo, like Atrivo/Intercage, was a major
source of badness.  Why couldn't the providers servicing them -- who
quite obviously had access to far more data than any of us -- see the
same thing?

What conclusion should we draw from their failure to act in a timely
and professional manner, long before a WaPost reporter got involved?

---Rsk