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Scam-Linked ISP Intercage / Atrivo Gets Shut Out

Posted by timothy on from the don't-let-the-door-hit-you-on-the-way-out dept.

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."

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  1. So, a drop of spam-traffic? by mi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For a couple of hours?

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  2. Re:Spamhaus, really? by Zerth · · Score: 3, Insightful

    While they don't do anything active, threatening to add you to their list for being the upstream of someone on their list is a little like saying "hey, nice knees. Shame if something happened to them". Enough people use Spamhaus, directly or indirectly, that being on their list can be equivalent to actively blocking them. It's not exactly a Usenet Death Penalty, but it'll cramp your style.

  3. How is this different from net-neutrality? by Em+Ellel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ok, for the record I am happy they are offline, but the devil's advocate in me does make me wonder about impact of this on net-neutrality.

    Consider this, a bandwidth provider cuts off certain traffic because it disproves of this traffic and feels most of it is illegal and it is bad for their business.

    Is it Pacific Internet Exchange cutting off access to Intercage because they believe most of the sites (70+ %) involves spam or some other illegal acvitivy?

    Or is it Comcast cutting off access to P2P protocols because they believe most of it (98+ %) involves copyright infringement or some other illegal activity?

    I am all for getting rid of the spam and malware, but something about this method is setting off red flags.

    Or maybe I am over-thinking it.

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  4. Re:That's why! by frosty_tsm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In Soviet Russia ________

    The economy bails you out?

  5. this was long coming by ionix5891 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A bit over a week ago Brian Krebs, who writes the "Security Fix" blog in the Washington Post, went public with a number of allegations about Atrivo and its activities. As a result, many of Atrivo's own upstream connectivity providers disconnected them.