FTC Takes Out Porn- and Botnet-Spewing ISP 263
coondoggie writes "The Federal Trade Commission today got a judge to effectively kill off the Internet service provider 3FN, which the agency said specialized in spam, porn, botnets, phishing, and all manner of malicious web content. The ISP's computer servers and other assets have been seized and will be sold by a court and the operation has been ordered give back $1.08 million to the FTC."
Break out the champagne! (Score:5, Funny)
My heart overflows for this poor oppressed Botnet operator.
Porn? (Score:5, Funny)
"FTC Takes Out Porn, Internet traffic slows to a trickle."
Oh god NO! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:How is the porn part relevant? (Score:2, Funny)
Because Americans are a bunch of sexually-repressed prudes in public
Yeah, that's the impression I get from watching American mass media. We are all prudes....
Re:How is the porn part relevant? (Score:5, Funny)
No more sex in marriage either.
Way ahead of ya, pal.
Re:How is the porn part relevant? (Score:1, Funny)
No more sex in marriage either.
I do believe you've made the elementary error of assuming there's sex in marriage.
One of These Things.... (Score:5, Funny)
One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
Did you guess which thing was not like the others?
Did you guess which thing just doesn't belong?
Re:How is the porn part relevant? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Porn? (Score:3, Funny)
Damn. Can they put the porn back online and just leave the botnet off please?
Re:One of These Things.... (Score:4, Funny)
Phishing doesn't belong because it's a verb.
The others are nouns.
Hint for the graduates of Texas:
nouns=names
Re:How is the porn part relevant? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How is the porn part relevant? (Score:5, Funny)
RTFA--they were hosting child pornography sites. That's a whole different animal from the usual porn.
Which animal is in your usual porn?
Re:How is the porn part relevant? (Score:4, Funny)
Because it gets the religious types in a frenzy, and all those anonymous letters and leaflet campaigns carry a lot of weight around the FTC.
Of course. You know that 1 complaint = 1 billion people, right?
Re:One of These Things.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:One of These Things.... (Score:5, Funny)
Botnets doesn't belong because it's the only one without the letter "p" in it.
Re:Break out the champagne! (Score:5, Funny)
You should apply bound checking, otherwise someone could exploit it.
Re:One of These Things.... (Score:2, Funny)
It's there, it's just upside-down.
Re:One of These Things.... (Score:3, Funny)
None of them are the same thing.