[102417] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IBM report reviews Internet crime
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Tue Feb 12 17:08:21 2008
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:01:45 GMT
To: andre@operations.net
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, michael.dillon@bt.com, owen@delong.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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- -- "Andre Gironda" <andre@operations.net> wrote:
[lots of good stuff elided]
>It's our fault for not pushing AV on your customers, and it's the AV's
>fault for not providing audit data to us, and it's the software
>vendors' fault for causing us to have to recommend AV and for AV to
>exist. The liability should land on the software vendors.
AV is simply a tool, not a panacea.
In fact, what to do about the hundreds of thousands of compromised
websites/servers that help facilitate this crime?
What about the thousands of malicious rogue DNS servers?
There's enough problem-spaces to point fingers all around...
$.02,
- - ferg
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Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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