10 Oct
2005
10 Oct
'05
4:42 p.m.
On Oct 10, 2005, at 4:27 pm, Gert Doering wrote: [...]
There is precendence that spammers (and other abusers) hijack address space from the registries, most often "old and not well maintained" address blocks (weak passwords, mail only authentication, and such), and abuse that.
Leslie Nobile and I gave a short presentation on this subject at RIPE 48. The slides we presented are available on the web site at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-48/presentations/ripe48-eof- nobile-vegoda.pdf http://tinyurl.com/cgnsf with the webcast archived here: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-48/sessions-archive.html#tuesday Regards, -- leo vegoda Registration Services Manager RIPE NCC