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Recovering the Slums of the Internet?
turtleshadow writes "Brian Krebs of the Security Fix Blog analyzes the McColo Spamming one year later and asks an interesting question: 'How does one renovate and recoup the lost trust to the slums of the Internet and reclaim back all the domains and IPs that have been blacklisted?' Indeed, the economic benefits abound when a huge swath of illegal and annoying activity ceases — but given the basic design of the Internet, what happens over the long run to IP space and DNS when hosting companies come and go and vary in their trustworthiness? So too, now Geocities is dead [as a business], but does that still live in your filter list? It still appears in OpenDNS under several policy categories. How, in a few years, will I tell if some Hosting/Colo sold me Whitechapel Road/Ventura Avenue for Mayfair/Boardwalk prices, and no one is going to accept my mail from a former slum? When do you, if ever, roll back the blacklists and filters for 'dead' threats and spammers?"
...because 90 percent of everything is crap.
> So too, now Geocities is dead [as a business], but does that still live in your filter list? It still appears in OpenDNS under several policy categories.
If you filter via OpenDNS, then you get what you deserve.
If you've done *any* metamoderating of OpenDNS website classifications, you will soon decide that poo flinging chimpanzees are more accurate.
I came, I saw, I ran away screaming.
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BMO
Simple. Do not call your web site goatse, or geocities. If someone registers that domain name, because he's too young to remember, or whatever... He'll figure out pretty quickly that things don't work for him, so he'll pick a different domain name, like goatsrus, geotowns, geomegacities, or whatever.
Frankly, I think that there are more pressing problems to think about.
I once passed a shop offering "Sandwich boxe's". I call it hedge-your-bets punctuation...
You don't. The Internet never forgets, never forgives.
Never sleeps either. The internet waits.
Saying your "phone ran out of batteries" is like saying your "car ran out of gas tanks".
It's still the coolest IP on the net.
Mod parent +5,000, Insightful.
You missed your chance, dude. You should have said: Mod parent over 9000, Insightful.