Re: [cobalt-users] German ISPs (was: dip.t-dialin.net IP Range)

["Jeffery L. JT Vogt" <lfm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael,

Wie gehts.

>The special problem with dip.t-dialin.net is :
>Most of the german script kiddies are using this ISP because they are
>almost the only one to provide Germany with a flatrate AND DSL for a low
>price - so they can keep their computer online all day and scan and scan
>and scan :(((

That may, indeed, be the case, but it doesn't excuse T-Online or any
other ISP from the rather apathetic attitude they take toward security.
The response I've received from them (when I've gotten something more
than a stock "form letter reply", including via telephone, has been, in
essence, "Oh well, we don't have to do anything about it, so, who cares."

I daresay they would be alot less happy if it were happening to them on
a large scale or, as others and myself have opined, a concerted,
coordinated effort to blackhole their routes came about.

-Arf, JT
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