Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:59:29 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Art Vandelay <therapshow@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Being a shell provider - good business? Message-ID: <200809140959.32653.beech@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <656c2abe0809140034s283a134w9aa5d2e60f520e99@mail.gmail.com> References: <656c2abe0809140034s283a134w9aa5d2e60f520e99@mail.gmail.com>
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On Saturday 13 September 2008, Art Vandelay said: > Hello. My friend thinks that being a shell provider for IRC bots > and bouncers is very good business. How do I convince him it's not? > > Sorry for going off-topic and cross-post, but I don't know who else > to ask. Ask him how he's going to deal with all the angry users when one of his script kiddie users gets the IP k-lined from all the irc servers. Or how he's going to deal with law enforcement after one of his accounts uses the shell for nefarious purposes. At the ISP I worked for we stopped offering shell accounts to all but our most trusted clients for those exact reasons. The only way I would even consider it would be to have a block of IPs and jail every user. Even then it's a legal and security minefield. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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