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Equally concerning is the trans border exercise of coercive force in such a blatant and sweeping manner... Do such kind of things not give grist to the mills that advocate nationalised DNS systems that the recent proposal of China on 'autonomous Internet' to the IETF does...... We should know that the same kind of trans border excercise of power done in this case for an apparently good reason can be done for many other, more objectionable, kinds of reasons, if all it takes is a US judge getting convinced that US law/ interests are implicated.<br>
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There should be more legitimate international systems taking care of the kind of problem that Microsoft detected than the way it got done. But there are people who remain convinced that nothing is broken that needs to be fixed - the broken record that we have been hearing for more than a decade now.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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parminder</font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">This reminds me of Operation Ghostnet that was brought down. Now here's a recent take down by <span class="il">Microsoft</span> following a Court Order that it received from the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria, see: <i><span class="il">Microsoft</span> Corporation a Washington corporation v Peng Yong</i>, <i>an individual; Changzhou Bei Te Kang Mu Software Technology Co., Ltd,, d/b/a Bitcomm, Ltd; John Does 1-3</i></span></div>
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<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/13/botnet_takedown/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/13/botnet_takedown/</a> The Article also contains links to the Pleadings (court documents that were filed). <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">In my personal view the Judge did the correct thing. "</span><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:Georgia;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;text-align:justify">Microsoft said that within hours of the takeover order being granted, it saw more than 35 million unique Internet addresses phoning home to those 70,000 malicious domains. "</span></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><i>Peng Yong</i><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">, </span><i>an individual; Changzhou Bei Te Kang Mu Software Technology Co., Ltd,, d/b/a Bitcomm, Ltd </i>had the opportunity to defend itself as we can see from the Pleadings that were filed in Virginia. A maturity that we may be seeing is that Microsoft is moving away from past unilateral actions as reported in the article that Norbert shared.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The reality is that clampdowns on Botnets etc can be filed in any court provided you have the appropriate legislations in place that recognise it as a crime in the first place. It is the option of whoever is filing to select their jurisdiction of choice.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I don't feel that we need new legitimate international systems to address the problem of botnets. This is a collective responsibility of all stakeholders within the Internet Universe.</div>
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"Last week, Microsoft Corp. made headlines when it scored an<br>
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