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Squeezing The Chokepoint

November 17, 2008: After years of efforts by Internet security firms and volunteer "white hat" (the good guys) hackers, governments are forcing ISPs (Internet Service Providers) to stop providing essential access for Internet criminals.

Internet crime, particularly spam (unsolicited email) has become a big money maker. Because of the very low cost of sending it, you need only one response for several million spam messages, to make lots of money. But the same ISPs that host the spammers, also host operations that try to sneak into business, government and personal computers to steal stuff (bank account information, trade secrets, classified military information). As much as the bad guys try to find places to hide, they tend to congregate at unscrupulous ISPs that will charge a bit extra, and look the other way. Now these rogue ISPs are under attack, and this will slow down the Internet bandits, and increase their cost of doing business. The chase is on, and the good guys are not going to give up.
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