McColo Takedown, Vigilantes Or Neighborhood Watch?

CWmike writes "Few tears were shed when alleged spam and malware purveyor McColo was suddenly taken offline last Tuesday by its upstream service providers. But behind the scenes of the McColo case and another recent takedown of Intercage, a ferocious struggle is taking place between the purveyors of Web-based malware and loosely aligned but highly committed groups of security researchers who are out to neutralize them. Backers claim that the effort to shut down miscreant ISPs is needed because of the inability of law enforcement agencies to deal with a problem that is global in nature. But some question whether there is a hint of vigilantism behind the takedowns — even as they acknowledge that there may not be any other viable options for dealing with the problem at this point."

Comments

Re:Who Cares?

[Rayban]

Your comment fails to account for:

[x] Laziness on the behalf of the Slashdot readers
[x] Lack of time
[x] Boredom with the same auto-reply form
[ ] Puppies

Re:Who Cares?

[eln]

Your "standard form" reply fails because:

[x] It is too short
[x] It fails to include humorous but not applicable options that are left unchecked.
[x] It lacks a "furthermore..." section
[x] You were clearly too lazy to put any real effort into...

Ah, to hell with it.

Re:Who Cares?

[Rayban]

[x] Meh

I'm out of

[Whiteox]

Viagra! Damn it... I knew I should have bought an extra months worth. I'm about to meet my Russian bride-to-be (still waiting for an email), and my Nigerian friend is going to send me some info regarding a business proposition. Not to mention that I've got to re-register with Paypal as there has been a security breech and my bank wants to confirm my password too.
I know! I'll forward this on to all my friends. They can pass it on too and maybe I'll get lucky.

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Re:Who Cares?

[swamp_ig]

[x] Your mom.

Re:vigilantism

[mevets]

Technically I think it makes you a cocksucker. If he goes and rounds up a mob to beat you for sodomy, that would make them vigilantes

Re:Damned plankton eaters

[narcberry]

You can't make an omlette without breaking eggs. I for one, and sick of finding spam in my omlette.

I tried to understand this, I really did.

Re:Damned plankton eaters

[Fluffeh]

Fine, explanation time:

The quote "You can't make an omlette without breaking a few eggs" means that you cannot always keep everyone happy.

I added to this to say that I was sick of finding spam (the food kind) in my omlette as a play on TFA which is all about spam (the junk kind) - which in the end means that if I was going to have some unhappy campers in this entire picture, I would choose the ones who are sending all the spam (the junk kind). Geez, next time I will just use a car analogy.

Re:No

[someone1234]

That's no ISP.