And that's because special interests have waged a relentless campaign to thwart even basic, common-sense rules - rules to prevent abuse and protect consumers.
Under section 1030 (a) (5) of the U. s. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, it's against the law to knowingly disseminate computer viruses, worms, denial-of-service attacks and other security intrusions.
At MAAWG's previous meeting in September, the group created a botnet-mitigation subcommittee dedicated to developing a set of best practices for ISPs to combat botnets.
Besides having the basic properties of the proxy signature, the new scheme prevents proxy misuse, original signer's forgery and public key substitution attack.