[144933] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What's a reasonable attack surface? (was: Re: wet-behind-the-ears
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keegan Holley)
Wed Sep 21 15:13:03 2011
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From: Keegan Holley <keegan.holley@sungard.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:11:29 -0400
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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I think people tend to go overboard in the planning phases for something
like this. I remember rumors of a certain large ISP getting along fine for
several years installing routers with a password like "getsmein". There are
plenty of groups that publish guidelines on ISP configuration as well as a
wealth of books on the subject. You'll just have to start out with the
basics and learn as you go. I'm not sure you can get a magic bullet from a
mailing list though.
2011/9/20 Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
>
> > As long as there is *A* failure mode? Hmm. <invents a movie-plot failure
> mode
> > involving crazed ninjas with katanas loose in a switch room at one
> provider>.
> > Yep, it's unlikely crazed ninjas will attack the switch rooms at both
> > providers.
>
> I too am a Schneier fan. But terrorists watch movies, too.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jr 'Once is happenstance...' a
> --
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