Re: BGP list of phishing sites?

[Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>]

Simon Lockhart wrote:

> It's wholy unfair to the innocent parties affected by the blacklisting.
>
> i.e. the collateral damage.
>
>  
You´ll get burned anyway in a bad neighborhood because of the bandwidth 
consumed by the crap.

> Say a phising site is "hosted" by geocities. Should geocities IP addresses
> be added to the blacklist?
>
> What if it made it onto an akamaized service? Should all of akamai be 
> blacklisted?
>
>  
As with any list, whitelisting space that takes care of complaints is 
always an option.

> LINX produced a paper recently on why BGP poisoning is exactly the wrong 
> answer to removing access to undesirable web content (i.e. phising sites).
> I've asked if it can be made public.
>  
Looking forward to it.

Pete