Comment There's actually a bunch of them out there... (Score 1) 177
Well, I'm actually in the ISP business. The people who "protect" the internet do it with strict views which can help weed out the bad guys, but usually ends up hurting lots of innocent users along the way. Spamhaus is a great example. Spam Nazis. You can have 1 bad customer using 1 IP and they'll blacklist an entire /20. Some others... NSA (collect, monitor, trace all communication), RIAA (enforce copyright DMCA throughout the world), DIA (coordinates all US intelligence agencies), ARIN (actually assigns, allocates, and manages all the IP's). These are just some of the agencies out there. Then you got security companies like RSA that'll take down your company with a law suit in minutes if you don't bow down to them. It's a bunch of different companies managing different aspects of security, usually overlapping. I can tell you though, the best protection is some routing statements, a firewall, and linux :)
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