How Microsoft Appointed Itself Sheriff of the Internet

Re:How Microsoft Appointed Itself Sheriff of the Internet by orf on Thursday October 16, 2014 @11:07AM (#8465287)

I'm glad Microsoft is doing what law enforcement seems incapable of doing. Microsoft also has a huge vested interest in cleaning up Windows related malware, and huge cash reserves. I expect they spend more than most countries do on combatting cybercrime.

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Re:How Microsoft Appointed Itself Sheriff of the Internet by serf on Thursday October 16, 2014 @01:35PM (#8466149)

>I'm glad Microsoft is doing what law enforcement seems incapable of doing.

Yeah! why make our seized domains go to waste redirecting to a landing page like the FBI when we could make them work for us while ruining some company's user experience like Microsoft did!! Yeah!

law enforcement & microsoft are equally capable of feeding judges bullshit in order to put their hands where they don't belong and destroy fragile systems.

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Re:How Microsoft Appointed Itself Sheriff of the Internet by iso27002 on Thursday October 16, 2014 @03:44PM (#8467159)

Why not aim your anger towards No-IP, given the following?

"Our research revealed that out of all Dynamic DNS providers, No-IP domains are used 93 percent of the time for Bladabindi-Jenxcus infections, which are the most prevalent among the 245 different types of malware currently exploiting No-IP domains. Microsoft has seen more than 7.4 million Bladabindi-Jenxcus detections over the past 12 months, which doesn’t account for detections by other anti-virus providers. Despite numerous reports by the security community on No-IP domain abuse, the company has not taken sufficient steps to correct, remedy, prevent or control the abuse or help keep its domains safe from malicious activity." http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2014/06/30/microsoft-takes-o...

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Re:How Microsoft Appointed Itself Sheriff of the Internet by kbart on Friday October 17, 2014 @07:51AM (#8470446)

Why stop here? Maybe just let Microsoft police whole Internet, after all, 100% of malware operates on it. MS should clean their house first and start taking OS security seriously instead of putting blame on legitimate business.

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