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Verizon Accused of Helping Spammers By Routing Millions of Stolen IP Addresses (spamhaus.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Spamhaus, an international non-profit organization that hunts down spammers, is accusing Verizon of indifference and facilitation of cybercrime because it failed for the past six months to take down stolen IP routes hosted on its network from where spam emails originated. Spamhaus detected over 4 million IP addresses, mainly stolen from China and Korea, and routed on Verizon's servers with forged paperwork. Spamhaus says, "For a start, it seems very strange that a large US-based ISP can be so easily convinced by abusers to route huge IP address blocks assigned to entities in the Asian-Pacific area. Such blocks are not something that can go unnoticed in the noise of everyday activity. They are very anomalous, and should call for an immediate accurate verification of the customer. Internal vetting processes at large ISPs should easily catch situations so far from normality."
Illicit gains > anticipated cost of getting caught? Proceed to fuck everyone.
Verizon is mainly using IPv6 in their cellular network, not their physical networks (not in any large number anyway). Very few residential customers have IPv6 addresses from Verizon and next to no business-class customers have IPv6 ranges supplied to them. Verizon is also not too interesting in rolling out IPv6 to their physical network customers any time soon since the common statistics out there show Verizon as being on the forefront of IPv6 deployment. This false impression has duped many, including you. The only reason they did so for their cellular networks was because it was easier and cheaper than somehow getting IPv4 ranges for all their handsets (including projections for future customer base).