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FTC Takes Out Porn- and Botnet-Spewing ISP

Posted by timothy on from the ayn-rand-would-approve dept.

coondoggie writes "The Federal Trade Commission today got a judge to effectively kill off the Internet service provider 3FN, which the agency said specialized in spam, porn, botnets, phishing, and all manner of malicious web content. The ISP's computer servers and other assets have been seized and will be sold by a court and the operation has been ordered give back $1.08 million to the FTC."

11 of 263 comments (clear)

  1. Break out the champagne! by peterb · · Score: 5, Funny

    My heart overflows for this poor oppressed Botnet operator.

    1. Re:Break out the champagne! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      You should apply bound checking, otherwise someone could exploit it.

  2. Porn? by jspenguin1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "FTC Takes Out Porn, Internet traffic slows to a trickle."

  3. Re:How is the porn part relevant? by The+Wild+Norseman · · Score: 5, Funny

    No more sex in marriage either.

    Way ahead of ya, pal.

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    "A government is a body of people usually -- notably -- ungoverned." -Shepherd Book
  4. One of These Things.... by Tanuki64 · · Score: 4, Funny

    spam, porn, botnets, phishing

    One of these things is not like the others,
    One of these things just doesn't belong,
    Can you tell which thing is not like the others
    By the time I finish my song?
    Did you guess which thing was not like the others?
    Did you guess which thing just doesn't belong?
    ....

    1. Re:One of These Things.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Phishing doesn't belong because it's a verb.
      The others are nouns.

      Hint for the graduates of Texas:
      nouns=names

    2. Re:One of These Things.... by GaryOlson · · Score: 4, Funny

      Spam does not belong because it is a food item. The others are just ways to waste time.

      --
      Every mans' island needs an ocean; choose your ocean carefully.
    3. Re:One of These Things.... by RJFerret · · Score: 4, Funny

      Botnets doesn't belong because it's the only one without the letter "p" in it.

  5. Re:How is the porn part relevant? by oldspewey · · Score: 5, Funny

    This was one of those comments that made me laugh, then immediately made me cry.

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    If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
  6. Re:How is the porn part relevant? by mrsteveman1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    RTFA--they were hosting child pornography sites. That's a whole different animal from the usual porn.

    Which animal is in your usual porn?

  7. Re:How is the porn part relevant? by kalirion · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because it gets the religious types in a frenzy, and all those anonymous letters and leaflet campaigns carry a lot of weight around the FTC.

    Of course. You know that 1 complaint = 1 billion people, right?