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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. Fingerprint ? by mirko · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does this mean that whoever whose data will be travelling across their switches will have to give credentials ?
    Does anyone else see the potential abuse it carries ?

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  2. Re:Interesting Idea by xtracto · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    whoops...
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  3. I tought they where banning Microsoft products by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ANd here I tought they where banning Microsoft products ... Oh well.

  4. Re:MSIE Deletion squad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dude, proactive was a jargon word in like '98. I think it's okay for general use by now.

  5. fighting evil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I saw the fighting evil headline and I thought they were going to code an OS alternative to windows.

    Or start a campaign to have Bush impeached.

    Or push to have the occupation troops recalled from the slaughterhouse in Iraq.

    Watch the hyperbole guys. You are cheapening the meaning of the word evil. Spam is not evil.

    Shooting up a family in Iraq because you are scared is Evil. Lying to invade a country and steal it's oil is Evil. Controlling the USA and using it to invade country after country on the quest for world domination the way the Israelis have done is Evil.