[anti-abuse-wg] Massive prefix theft in AFRINIC - attributed to an insider

Let me join Suresh in congratulating you, Ron. It is very hard to obtain meaningful results in this kind of affairs. Yet here, the hard-earned results have been impressive. Hats off.

Best regards

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De: anti-abuse-wg [anti-abuse-wg-bounces at ripe.net] en nombre de Ronald F. Guilmette [rfg at tristatelogic.com]
Enviado: jueves, 05 de diciembre de 2019 0:50
Para: anti-abuse-wg at ripe.net
Asunto: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Massive prefix theft in AFRINIC - attributed to an insider

I am obliged to thank my friend Suresh for his kind words.

I have indeed been trying, for lo these past 20+ years now, to chase
spammers and other miscreants off the Internet.  It has rarely been
easy, but there have been occasional gratifications.  Today is one such.
But this story is not yet complete, and I have miles to go before I
sleep.

I am also obliged to post one small but important correction to what
Suresh said.  Suresh said that Ernest Byaruhanga "has now separated
from AFRINIC."  That's not really entirely accurate.  He has resigned,
but as noted in the story on mybroadband.co.za, he is currently still
employed by AFRINIC and is currently serving out his notice period.

Neither I nor my co-pilot on this story, South African journalist
Jan Vermeulen, have any information about whether or nor, at this
moment, Mr. Byaruhanga still retains unfettered read/write access
to the AFRINIC data base.  (I think that it is not at all inaccurate
to say that multiple AFRINIC officials that we contacted in regards
to this story have been rather entirely less than forthcoming with
us as we tried to get to the bottom of all of these matters.)


Regards,
rfg