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Internet Providers Band Together to Fight Evil

Posted by timothy on from the hola-arborites dept.

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?"

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  1. "Evil"? by Markus+Persson · · Score: 5, Insightful

    DDOS attacks? BitTorrent traffic? Spam email? Slashdotting? Seems a bit too vague to be good.

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