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Internet Providers Band Together to Fight Evil
toadlife writes "A group of prominent Internet providers are teaming up with a security vendor Arbor Networks to form the Fingerprint Sharing Alliance. Through the use of Arbor Networks Peakflow SP internet appliance (which is an OpenBSD box with some secret sauce mixed in), members of the alliance can share internet threat information with each other in real time. It sounds a bit like Razor, doesn't it?"
How about: "It sounds a bit like SkyNet, doesn't it?"
Will they all be wearing spandex bodysuits and flowing capes to work?
A group of prominent Internet providers :\
Not after we slashdotted them
Shouldn't these so called "Internet providers" cope with a small increase in traffic?
This could be the greatest comic book. Ever.
IF there's somethign strange , in your network group Who You Gonna Call .. DDOS butsters
If your packets are strange , and your email slow
Who You Gonna Call .. DDOS busters
When I read "Internet Providers Band Together to Fight Evil" for some reason I had the mental image of a bunch of kids with the names of major ISPs written on their T-shirts running around with rings containing the power of broadband, low latency etc.
Whenever the evil Doctor Congestion and Señor Spam try to take over the 'Net they come together to summon Captain Internet who saves the day and educates us about how to use up less bandwidth.
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
(goofy tech looking at LAN Monitor) What's that on the LAN ?
Is it a torrent packet ?
Is it a ping ?
No... it's ISP man !!!!
I just hope they wear good tights. Superheros need good tights.
Sky subscribers are morons. They pay to be advertised at !
Will they all be wearing spandex bodysuits and flowing capes to work?
Oh god, please... NO. I have this delicate image of a 300 pound sysadmin with greasy hair and beard wearing what you described. For some reason, I have now completely lost my appetite...