Re: Interesting Point of view - Russian police and RIPE accused of aiding RBN

[Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>]

* a. harrowell:

> It ought to be superfluous to point out that the only effective
> action taken against RBN was by the Internet community in getting
> all their upstreams to null route them. As is blindingly obvious,
> SOCA would never have been granted a warrant by the Russians.

Ugh, in reality, they needed a warrant from the Metropolitan Police
(which could have been equally problematic).