After Links To Cybercrime, Latvian ISP Cut Off 116
alphadogg writes with this Network World story, excerpting "A Latvian ISP linked to online criminal activity has been cut off from the Internet, following complaints from Internet security researchers. Real Host, based in Riga, Latvia was thought to control command-and-control servers for infected botnet PCs, and had been linked to phishing sites, Web sites that launched attack code at visitors and were also home to malicious 'rogue' antivirus products, according to a researcher using the pseudonym Jart Armin, who works on the Hostexploit.com Web site. 'This is maybe one of the top European centers of crap,' he said in an e-mail interview. 'It was a cesspool of criminal activity,' said Paul Ferguson, a researcher with Trend Micro."
Re:It's not criminal activity when we do it (Score:2, Funny)
Well, malice towards Latvians would be xenophobia, and the RIAA definitely have a lot of phobias, so yes.
Centers of Crap (Score:3, Funny)
This is maybe one of the top European centers of crap,'
The server 216.178.38.116 is an American server known to have loads of crap too! I hope they also could get it!
Re:Censorship (Score:2, Funny)
--start-bad-analogy--
I let you watch TV at my house. But, most of the time you are there, you leave trash and shit everywhere, and fail to clean up after yourself.
So, after enough complaints from my other guests, I decide to kick your ass out.
--end-bad-analogy--
Hey, fuck you. That's my shtick.
What if I was the one providing everyone a ride that night? You just fucked over all your guests, you inconsiderate asshole.
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Re:It's not criminal activity when we do it (Score:5, Funny)
I thought xenophobia was a fear of virtualised environments?
Re:They'll move elsewhere (Score:0, Funny)