[127337] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Recommendation in Australia for ISPs to force user security?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Tue Jun 22 14:58:05 2010
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:57:46 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
In-Reply-To: <4C210134.2030706@linuxbox.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
not sure how they propose to enforce that, instrumentation approaches
that look inside the home gateway have a non-trivial falsh positive rate
and you've got a lot more hosts than ip addresses.
On 06/22/2010 11:30 AM, Gadi Evron wrote:
> http://www.zdnet.com.au/make-zombie-code-mandatory-govt-report-339304001.htm
>
>
> "A government report into cybercrime has recommended that internet
> service providers (ISPs) force customers to use antivirus and firewall
> software or risk being disconnected.
> security
>
> Committee chair Belinda Neal said in her introduction to the 262-page
> report titled "Hackers, Fraudsters and Botnets: Tackling the Problem of
> Cyber Crime" that due to the exponential growth of malware and other
> forms of cybercrime in recent years, "the expectation that end users
> should or can bear the sole responsibility for their own personal online
> security is no longer a tenable proposition".
>
> "We need to apply the same energy and commitment given to national
> security and the protection of critical infrastructure to the cybercrime
> threats that impact on society more generally," she said."
>
