[109898] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Sun Dec 14 20:44:57 2008
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:44:30 -0600 (CST)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081214200852.GB9303@gsp.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 05:51:13PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
>> but you need to be much more specific about what you want from
>> medium and smaller isps, and what the immediate payoffs (cf. the
>> financial secions of the newpaper) will be to them to justify the costs.
>
> Inferior people look solely for financial payoff. Superior people
> recognize their fundamental obligation to prevent their operation from
> being a menace to others, and do it based on ethics.
They don't need t be moral, they need to understand 4 years down the line
it will cost them significantly to the point of losing a lot of business.
A good example is registrars. They lose quite a bit now.
Foresight on security is not something that really works.
> ---Rsk
>
