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U.S. Internet Providers Seek Low Broadband Bar

• Comment posted Sep 03, 2009 5:11 am PDT — by Fergie
  So, look it—I grew up in Virginia myself, spent a career in the U.S. Military, and have been working in the telecom, security, and intelligence community all the while (and to this day). I have n problem with you personally,…

• Comment posted Sep 03, 2009 4:32 am PDT — by Fergie
  Checking you LinkedIn profile, I see that we have t reversed similar paths, although you seem to have stayed in the "Beltway Bandit" realm, whereas I decide after Military Service and COMSEC duties to move one, with the exception of…

• Comment posted Sep 03, 2009 4:18 am PDT — by Fergie
  Well then Dan, stop acting like a lobbyist. I've been working in the telecom industry for over 20 years, and I like to think I know a little bit about what I speak. That's part of the reason why I…

• Comment posted Sep 03, 2009 4:12 am PDT — by Fergie
  I scoff because nothing in the U.S even approaches either number, and now you sounding like a shill for the telecom industry. If you don't want consumers in the U.S to be able to have access to high-speed Internet at…

• Comment posted Sep 03, 2009 4:04 am PDT — by Fergie
  Also, Dan—I've noticed from your BIO/Profile that you're a marketing guy, not a network operations guy. Well, I am, and I can tell you that the issues are much more complictaed that bit and bytes. They are speed, availability, and…

• Comment posted Sep 03, 2009 3:58 am PDT — by Fergie
  Oh, and I forgot to add—it's cheape rthan my 8Mbps/1.5Mbps Comcast fiasco. Go figure. - ferg

• Comment posted Sep 03, 2009 3:55 am PDT — by Fergie
  Bits, bytes. Tilting at windmills. I have a close friend and colleague who live in Tokyo (my company is incorporated in Japan) who has a 10Mbps up/down residential broadband connection in his home. That will never happen in the U.S.—ever.…

• Comment posted Sep 03, 2009 3:31 am PDT — by Fergie
  Splitting hairs? Surely you jest. American ISPs and Telecoms are some of the most active lobbyists on Capitol Hill, and this surely shows that they are trying to lower the standard "definition" of "broadband" to something which is much more…

The Chinese Domain Name Bubble Bursts

• Comment posted Aug 19, 2009 5:25 am PDT — by Fergie
  Hi John, The problem is that "domainers" keep looking at the domain "sales" and registations, and call it a "success". We look at the abuse and call it a miserable failure, due to the fact that .CN administration (and child…

• Comment posted Aug 19, 2009 5:07 am PDT — by Fergie
  .CN is also the weakest ccTLD policy-wise—they DO NOT enforce abuse requests, and are the most abused ccTLD on the planet insofar as being used by Russian/Ukrainian cyber criminals. I would not consider that a success story. - ferg

Innovation and Cybersecurity Regulation

• Comment posted Apr 01, 2009 7:10 am PDT — by Fergie
  Wow—where to begin? Let me play Devil's Advocate for a moment. How exactly would this be accomplished? I cannot even imagine forcing private industry (and I'm not talking about credit card processors, or power grid systems, etc.) to comply by…

Ladies and Gentlemen, China's Netizen Day...

• Comment posted Jan 09, 2009 7:51 am PST — by Fergie
  Toon of The Day: Chinese Netizens on 'Netizens' Day' http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BYX14125JUQ/SWbgeZGBx7I/AAAAAAAAI84/dCbBSyvBBdQ/s1600-h/Chinese_Netizens_Day_Toon.jpg Translation: (1) “September 14 is now Netizens’ Day. We netizens finally have our own celebratory day, Yeah!” (2) “How should we netizens celebrate this day?” (3) “Take a day off!…

Spam Volumes Dropped by Two-Thirds After Major Spam Hub Shut Down

• Comment posted Nov 14, 2008 1:52 am PST — by Fergie
  For all intents and purposes, McColo is "off the air". - ferg

• Comment posted Nov 13, 2008 7:47 pm PST — by Fergie
  @Carl Byington Not sure where you came up with that—McColo is dead in the water, routing-wise: Hello, this is zebra (version 0.95a). Copyright 1996-2004 Kunihiro Ishiguro. route-views2.routeviews.org> sho ip bgp 208.66.192.0 BGP routing table entry for 208.66.192.0/22 Paths: (2 available,…

• Comment posted Nov 13, 2008 4:11 am PST — by Fergie
  I would also recommend reading the HostExploit.com research whitepaper on the activities observed in McColo: http://hostexploit.com/ ...and it becomes very clear the sort of "badness" that was occurring there. FYI, - ferg

ICANN Slaps Joker.com and DNS.com.cn

• Comment posted Oct 02, 2008 4:50 am PDT — by Fergie
  One can only hope that EstDomains is next—they pose a more serious threat than any other registrar on the Internet. See also: EstDomains: A Sordid History and a Storied CEO ...for starters. - ferg

Atrivo, Notorious U.S. Based ISP Completely Cut Off by Its Network Providers

• Comment posted Sep 23, 2008 12:25 am PDT — by Fergie
  Actually, they're back on the air today: http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS27595 - ferg

Mobilizing Russian Population Attacking Georgia: Similar to the Estonian Incident?

• Comment posted Aug 14, 2008 8:30 am PDT — by Fergie
  Okay, so I love Gadi, but I have to disagree with him to a certain extent. Yes, there are "hacktivist", grass-roots elements which have arisen over the course of the past couple of days, and yes—they have been a component…

Apple Finally Patches DNS Flaw

• Comment posted Aug 01, 2008 8:11 pm PDT — by Fergie
  But wait—there's more, and it's not all good. There is a report from the SANS Internet Storm Center that while "...Apple might have fixed some of the more important parts for servers, but is far from done yet as all…

DNS Attack Creator Becomes a Victim of His Own Creation

• Comment posted Jul 30, 2008 6:03 pm PDT — by Fergie
  To be fair, HD Moore has written his own account of this interview/article, and takes issue with several points. - ferg

Just a Matter of Time Before DNS Attack Code Might Surface

• Comment posted Jul 23, 2008 4:28 am PDT — by Fergie
  The most shocking part of this entire circus act is that the majority of the Internet infrastructure (read: ISPs) seem to be completely ignoring this warning. Not easily scared, but that should scare the piss out of us all. Really.…

U.S. Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill to Shield Phone Companies

• Comment posted Jul 10, 2008 2:11 am PDT — by Fergie
  I don't know what emotion best describes how I feel about this betrayal. Sadness, I think, best describes it. - ferg

Domain Registrars Releasing Suspended Domains to Attackers

• Comment posted Jun 11, 2008 8:21 pm PDT — by Fergie
  Of course, it's not an issue of "...allowing criminals to use DNS." It is, however, an issue of allowing criminals to register domains simply to be used for malicious or fraudulent purposes. Again, stop being obsessed with lists. Forget about…

• Comment posted Jun 11, 2008 7:32 pm PDT — by Fergie
  I wouldn't get so wrapped up on the issue of "lists" - but let's face it, if there were ways to prevent criminals from gaming the entire Domain Registration system (and polluting the domain portion of the WHOIS database, but…

• Comment posted Jun 11, 2008 6:31 pm PDT — by Fergie
  James Seng wrote: "What do you think ICANN should do? Freeze these names indefinitely? The attackers could easily switch to IP without using domain names easily and still carry out the attack." "I dont see this as an ICANN issue…

• Comment posted Jun 11, 2008 6:53 am PDT — by Fergie
  I stand by my comments, and I'm glad Mary brought this to our attention. This is especially indicative of the problems that we are fighting with regards to criminals gaming the domain registration policies. This must be corrected, or the…

.hk the "Most Unsafe" Domains?

• Comment posted Jun 06, 2008 5:18 pm PDT — by Fergie
  Suresh, I'm very pleased to see that you posted this summary, since I was thinking of doing so in a similar fashion (but I'm glad you beat me to it). As you mentioned, the McAfee report used data from a…

The Internet's Weakest Link

• Comment posted Feb 03, 2008 5:30 pm PST — by Fergie
  There were actually three (3) transoceanic cables cut last week—see also: "Third Cable Cut Compounds Net Woes" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7222536.stm ...and the Renesys folks have a lot of detailed information over on their blog: http://www.renesys.com/blog/ Cheers, - ferg

Bandwidth Demands Exceeding Internet Infrastructure Investment

• Comment posted Nov 21, 2007 6:09 am PST — by Fergie
  Well, unfortunately, it still appears to be a completely dubious position, all tolled. Given the half-speak, vagaries, and simple assertions that are simply not based on complete fact—or indeed, based on sleight of hand—I can only dismiss this as propaganda…

• Comment posted Nov 20, 2007 8:31 pm PST — by Fergie
  This Nemertes "research" is a bit dubious. In my opinion, it should be titled: "Death of the Internet Predicted Again: A Little Disingenuity"? As Mike Masnick over on techdirt.com points out: "So, take with a large grain of salt the…

ICANN Investigating Domain Tasting

• Comment posted Aug 12, 2007 10:44 pm PDT — by Fergie
  Ironically, I ran across this tidbit today. Jay Westerdal writes on The DomainTools Blog that: "Today was the largest Domain Tasting day ever. We recorded over 8 Million Transactions today. This is a new high. We have never seen 8…

• Comment posted Aug 11, 2007 10:04 pm PDT — by Fergie
  John Levine authored a very good post on Domain Tasting here on CircleID back in May 2006: http://www.circleid.com/posts/domain_in_bad_taste/ Having said that, one can only hope that by "investigating" the issue, ICANN realizes that the business processes and policies that allow…

Registerfly Victims Are Really Stuck Now

• Comment posted Mar 29, 2007 5:06 pm PDT — by Fergie
  Not only that, but things are probably going to get a lot uglier—a class-action lawsuit has already been filed against Registerfly and Enom, as well as ICANN: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/28/icann_lisbon_lawsuit_registerfly/ Enjoy. :-) - ferg

Time to Play Offense

• Comment posted Sep 09, 2005 8:50 pm PDT — by Fergie
  RE:Matthew Elvey's conspiracy theory comment about non-destructive viruses. They exist—they're called botnets. They install crimeware, some thay use keyloggers. I suppose, however, that one could classify wiping out one's bank account as destructuve, though. :-) - ferg http://fergdawg/blogspot.com/

Redux: European Parliament Proposes .kid Internet Domain

• Comment posted Sep 07, 2005 11:19 pm PDT — by Fergie
  Wait: I take it back: .biz has been enormously successful for the distribution of phishing hosts, malware, crimeware, botnet C&C;hosts, etc. - ferg

• Comment posted Sep 07, 2005 11:17 pm PDT — by Fergie
  Hmm. I would submit to you: How succesful have the .aero, .biz, .coop, .info ,museum, .name,and .pro TLD's been since implemented? By my personal observation, not very. But I could be wrong.... - ferg

Time to Play Offense

• Comment posted Aug 30, 2005 7:00 pm PDT — by Fergie
  Very nicely articulated. - ferg

IGP on Future U.S. Role in Internet Governance

• Comment posted Jul 29, 2005 2:11 am PDT — by Fergie
  What is this? A statement of the obvious? I'm confused. :-) - ferg

A Balkanized Internet Future?

• Comment posted Jul 22, 2005 6:59 pm PDT — by Fergie
  Very thought-provoking, and accurate, picture of the current state of the Internet information state. See also a Reporters sans Fronti�res article on the devisive Internet control situation in (for instance) Nepal: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=14461 - ferg

IETF Publishes RFCs on SPF and Sender ID

• Comment posted Jun 30, 2005 6:26 pm PDT — by Fergie
  Right you are, John, but the market always decides. You can understand, however, how people see the Microsoft announcement as strong-arm tactics....

Twenty Myths and Truths About IPv6 and the US IPv6 Transition

• Comment posted Jun 21, 2005 7:27 pm PDT — by Fergie
  Obviously no bias in the viewpoints expressed in this article, right? Right.... - fergie

Address Policies

• Comment posted May 09, 2005 11:53 pm PDT — by Fergie
  I have not seen a more detailed and rational description of the issues involved here. Great job, Geoff.