[120220] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Newton)
Sat Dec 12 01:57:52 2009
From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <4B2248A1.9000607@viagenie.ca>
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:25:22 +1030
To: Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11/12/2009, at 11:56 PM, Simon Perreault wrote:
>> We *know* that if a worm puts up
>> a popup that says "Enable port 33493 on your firewall for naked pics of.."
>> that port 33493 will get opened anyhow, so we may as well automate the
>> process and save everybody the effort.
>
> Not if the victim doesn't have rights on the firewall (e.g. enterprise).
Would you be using "Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls" in the
enterprise? 'cos if you would, I think I might have entered the wrong
thread :)
- mark
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