From: Sean Donelan (no email)
Date: Tue Aug 08 2006 - 20:22:26 EDT
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Rick Wesson wrote:
>>> Last sunday at DEFCON I explained how one consumer ISP cost American
>>> business $29M per month because of the existence of key-logging botnets.
>>
>> Why did you attribute responsibility for the cost only to the consumer ISP?
>> How much of the cost should be attributed the PC OEM, or the software
>> developers, or the American business, or the ....?
>
> Because the numbers are significant. Finding any entity that could provide a
> choke-point for 4% of business side id-theft is an interesting exercise and
> of significant value to the community.
Ok, so the ISPs weren't actually responsible for the cost, you are just
choosing ISPs as a convenient mechanism to impose controls on the
Internet.
How do you intend to compensate the ISP for providing this valuable
service to the American business community? Are American businesses going
to get together and pay for it? Or are you expecting ISPs to charge
consumers more to connect to the Internet in order to pay for it?
Or would the money be better spent by American businesses improving their
ID checking so the problem of id-theft could be addressed regardless of
the information was obtained by criminals, from computers, trash cans,
phishing, online information brokers, etc.
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