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"in a 2020 interview with KrebsOnSecurity, Golestan claimed that Micfo was at one point responsible for brokering roughly 40 percent of the IP addresses used by

by ohashi 3y ago

"in a 2020 interview with KrebsOnSecurity, Golestan claimed that Micfo was at one point responsible for brokering roughly 40 percent of the IP addresses used by the world’s largest VPN providers. Throughout that conversation, Golestan maintained his innocence, even as he explained that the creation of the phony companies was necessary to prevent entities like Spamhaus from interfering with his business going forward." He had to commit fraud, otherwise the business wouldn't work!

costco 3y ago
It is reasonable to not want your name plastered on a website run by vigilante cyber police who we have given quasi-law enforcement powers and the ability to de facto shut down ISPs (and in one case a ccTLD). It's even more reasonable when you realize they are incorporated in Andorra - good luck suing them if they get something wrong!
- jacquesm 3y ago
  I've seen Microsoft, Yahoo and Google all blackhole IP blocks wrongly because they were mixed up with IPs operated by spammers but I've never seen Spamhaus do this, in fact they went absolutely out of their way (without any requests from us) to ensure that our lonely IP on a Toronto ISP that did a lot of shady stuff was excepted.
  - ozr 3y ago
    You and the parent are both correct, which is the problem. Spamhaus is notorious for inconsistent behavior, driven largely by the personal whims of individual employees.
    - ohashi 3y ago
      The fact anyone is reading anything from there at all seems better than Google et al.
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