[126992] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP Responsibilities [WAS: Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Wed Jun 9 13:03:23 2010
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:02:59 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
CC: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4C0FC669.908@infiltrated.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 6/9/2010 11:50, J. Oquendo wrote:
[Lots of good stuff snipped.]
> Don't blame the software vendors blame oneself. I've seen even the most
> savvy users using OS' *other* than Windows get compromised. I performed
> an incident response about 8 months ago... 42 machines 41 Linux, 1
> Windows... Guess what, all the Linux boxes running Apache were
> compromised. They were running vulnerable software on them (Wordpress,
> etc). So to compare Apples and Oranges (Windows versus another) is
> pointless.
Exactly so (applies also to the snipped material).
Responsibility. Individual, personal and corporate responsibility.
Using only the fingers of a clinched fist to indicate the location of
the best agent for correcting a problem.
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Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting
the vote.
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