FTC Shuts Down Calif. ISP For Botnets, Child Porn 224
An anonymous reader writes "The Federal Trade Commission has convinced a federal judge to pull the plug on a 3FN.net, a.k.a. 'Pricewert LLC,' a Northern California based hosting provider. The FTC alleges that 3FN/Pricewert was directly involved in setting up spam-spewing botnets, among other illegal activities, the Washington Post's Security Fix Blog writes. From the story: 'Pricewert hosts very little legitimate content and vast quantities of illegal, malicious, and harmful content, including child pornography, botnet command and control servers, spyware, viruses, trojans, phishing related sites, illegal online pharmacies, investment and other Web-based scams, and pornography featuring violence, bestiality, and incest.' The story quotes a former Justice Dept. expert saying the FTC action may be a smoke screen for a larger criminal investigation by the federal government in 3FN's activities."
Paging all "first posters"... (Score:4, Funny)
What the article leaves out (Score:5, Funny)
'Pricewert hosts very little legitimate content and vast quantities of illegal, malicious, and harmful content, including child pornography, botnet command and control servers, spyware, viruses, trojans, phishing related sites, illegal online pharmacies, investment and other Web-based scams, and pornography featuring violence, bestiality, and incest.'
Yes but how much were they charging per month? It doesn't say. You probably get all this stuff with the "premium" package.
Re:Quite a list (Score:4, Funny)
But what makes it different than any other ISP?
Their bribe was late.
Re:Help me Rob Malda, you're my only hope! (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Help me Rob Malda, you're my only hope! (Score:0, Funny)
Precision flatulence.
Re:OT: Which browser is slashdot supposed to work (Score:2, Funny)
Looks justfine in IE 6! Just have to enable Active X and set your security settings to "low".
Re:Hand It Over to Someone More Capable (Score:5, Funny)
Well, the body was found in a park ...
Re:Hand It Over to Someone More Capable (Score:5, Funny)
and:
"the FTC's authority gives it the power to shut down companies that appear to be engaged in unfair and deceptive practices"
Deceptive practices? Well, we've all heard about the crackwhore complaining to the cops about being sold bogus rocks. I can just imagine how this went.
perv: Dude, I paid mad money for this CP and it turns out the girl was 18. They ripped me off!
ftc: Gee, how awful. What was that url again? We'll look into this immediately.
Re:Hand It Over to Someone More Capable (Score:5, Funny)
but it comes as no surprise to me that a seemingly unrelated government agency is going after these guys.
The FTC has the authoring to go after people running "illegal online pharmacies, investment and other Web-based scams". That's part of their mission.
Looks like somebody at the FTC found out that those penis enlargement pills don't work at all.
Re:Hand It Over to Someone More Capable (Score:2, Funny)
When you think of the children when you think of pornography, I'm fairly sure that IS illegal and not censorship.
Actually, it's because part of the content was ... (Score:3, Funny)
Looks like the Slashdot clowns are "targeting" all browsers. Everything sucks.
Naw. Part of the content was hosted on 3FN and the FTC just took it down.
(It's a joke. Mod it "funny".)
Re:What the article leaves out (Score:1, Funny)
This stuff has to remain between a man and a woman or society is just going to disintegrate with everyone screwing donkeys.
Re:What the article leaves out (Score:1, Funny)
For those wondering,
Bestiality is when mommy and daddy and spot are loving each other very much...