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Level 3 Blocking Traffic to Servers Believed Controlled by Criminal Gangs

posted by n1 on Tuesday June 02 2015, @11:55AM   
from the net-neutrality dept.

tt0049065 writes:

Earlier this month, Brett Wentworth took Level 3 Communications Inc. into territory that most rivals have been reluctant to enter. The director of global security at the largest carrier of Internet traffic cut off data from reaching a group of servers in China that his company believed was involved in an active hacking attack.

The Broomfield, Colo., company handles roughly 40% of internet traffic and is taking an aggressive—and some say risky approach—to battling criminal activity. Risky because hackers often hijack legitimate machines to do their dirty work, raising the risk of collateral damage by sidelining a business using the same group of servers. Such tactics also run against a widely held belief that large carriers should be facilitating traffic, not halting it.

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Original Submission

• Re:not even sure where this is going - P2P ? (Score: 3, Insightful) by kaszz on Tuesday June 02 2015, @09:08PM

  by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday June 02 2015, @09:08PM (#191273) Journal

  Relying on http servers and clients is damn sensitive setup. I think the time is long overdue for a reliable P2P solution. That should eliminate some of the most obvious DoS, "nice server you got there" and infrastructure failure issues.

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