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Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden
- From: Dave Rand
- Date: Fri Apr 29 17:28:15 2005
[In the message entitled "Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden" on Apr 29, 17:23, "Steven J. Sobol" writes:]
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Dave Rand wrote:
>
> > Dunno what a ton of ISP buy-in is, but the MAPS DUL now contains about
> > 190,000,000 entries. We've been working on it very hard for the last year or
> > two. Most ISP-level subscribers figure it stops a pretty large percentage of
> > the compromised-home-computer spam.
>
> Well, that's it then: "for the last year or two" - I don't recall a lot of
> entries being on the DUL in its original incarnation. (Not for lack of
> trying.)
I'm sure there was more than one reason that it was not as large as it is
today.
Regardless, it's here, it's effective, and it is very widely used.
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