Being a shell provider - good business?

[Beech Rintoul]

On Saturday 13 September 2008, Art Vandelay said:
> Hello. My friend thinks that being a shell provider for IRC bots
> and bouncers is very good business. How do I convince him it's not?
>
> Sorry for going off-topic and cross-post, but I don't know who else
> to ask.

Ask him how he's going to deal with all the angry users when one of 
his script kiddie users gets the IP k-lined from all the irc servers. 
Or how he's going to deal with law enforcement after one of his 
accounts uses the shell for nefarious purposes. At the ISP I worked 
for we stopped offering shell accounts to all but our most trusted 
clients for those exact reasons. The only way I would even consider 
it would be to have a block of IPs and jail every user. Even then 
it's a legal and security minefield.

Beech


-- 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech at FreeBSD.org
/"\   ASCII Ribbon Campaign  | FreeBSD Since 4.x
\ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail   | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech
 X  - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech
/ \  - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------