Re: CERT

[Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>]

> 
> 
> > i am disappointed to hear these stories about cert, but encourage others
> > with tales to tell to step forward.  this is a real eye-opener.
> 
> I just had to deal with a minor crisis caused by CERT. They contacted the
> domain-admin for the *.fi domain, saying they had been informed that the
> anonymous ftp archive at anon.penet.fi was being used to distribute
> illegal copies of software. They did *not* contact me directly, nor my
> service provider.
[...]
> Fortunately I could tell them that anon.penet.fi didn't even run ftp at
> all, easily verifiable by trying to ftp from anon.penet.fi. They did
> apologize profusely, but somehow that doesn't quite...

Disturbing pattern that CERT contact people about hosts which perform
actions contrary to the wishes of some MIBS.  Or is that just paranoia ?
I doubt the NSA/FBI/any_other_government_agencies would be crying if
either anon.penet.fi or soda were taken off the net...