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Scam-Linked ISP Intercage / Atrivo Gets Shut Out
alphadogg writes with this excerpt from Network World: "The lifeline linking notorious service provider Intercage to the rest of the Internet has been severed. Intercage, which has also done business under the name Atrivo, was knocked offline late Saturday night when the last upstream provider connecting it to the Internet's backbone, Pacific Internet Exchange, terminated Intercage's service. Intercage president Emil Kacperski said Pacific did not tell him why his company had been knocked offline, but he believes it was in response to pressure from Spamhaus, a volunteer-run antispam group, which has been highly critical of Intercage's business practices."
Nice typo in the title - very appropriate slip.
No sig? Sigh...
That's nothing. I got an offer this morning of $700B, with little oversight and no accountability. All I have to do is prove that I recklessly lost hundreds of billions of investor capital.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
Nigerian Mortgage Enlargement Pills.
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
I for one welcome this chance for other spam vendors to engage in a little competition. It will be a wholly new playing field if/when Intercage re-emerges online, after previously holding a dominant position. Hopefully the free-market nature of Internet business will only encourage the production of more quality spam. The recipients of spam can only benefit from this new development.
What's the value of information that you don't know?
Maybe he could apply for a government bailout. After all, spam does account for a significant portion of our economy
Still though one wonders how someone can be running an ISP with 78% hostile traffic and not realize something is up.
If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say. ;)
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
Yea, don't give them any ideas!
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Next thing you know `traceroute intercage.com` will look something like this:
traceroute to intercage.com (128.102.0.99), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
12 TKC-COMMUNI.hsa4.SanJose1.Level3.net (209.245.146.6) 36.243 ms 36.086 ms 36.397 ms
13 n254-border-rtr-nisn-sip.arc.nasa.gov (198.123.41.9) 36.087 ms 36.086 ms 36.403 ms
14 intercage.com (128.102.0.99) 36.432 ms 36.231 ms 36.891 ms