Re: Subtle Irony: IGF Meeting Blacklisted

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Paul Ferguson wrote:
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> Patrick Vande Walle writes on CircleID:
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> I got an e-mail from someone currently attending the Internet Governance
> Forum (IGF) meeting in Geneva. The e-mail ended up in my spam folder
> because the IP address used for the wireless LAN at the meeting is on a
> spambot/virusbot blacklist, namely cbl.abuseat.org. Apparently some guy
> there has his computer infected by a spambot or a virusbot.
>
> Because the local host uses a NAT, all the computers share the same public
> IP address. This means that all the attendees to the meeting risk seeing
> their e-mails blacklisted somewhere.
>
> Funny this comes from the very people who would like to set up strategies
> to fight cybercrime...

They are important folks and are important to causes, such as "Internet 
freedom of speech" and "capacity building for developing countries".

Any percieved relevance to security is mistaken.



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> Ref: http://www.circleid.com/posts/igf_meeting_blacklisted/
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> Enjoy. :-)
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> - - ferg
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