[170042] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: misunderstanding scale
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Sun Mar 23 18:43:44 2014
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 15:42:16 -0700
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
In-Reply-To: <532F60DD.3030302@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 10:31:57PM +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 23/03/2014 21:02, Mark Andrews wrote:
> > Actually all you have stated in that printer vendors need to clean
> > up their act and not that one shouldn't expect to be able to expose
> > a printer to the world. It isn't hard to do this correctly.
>
> perish the thought - and I look forward to the day that vendors write
> secure software which is impregnable to all vulnerabilities past and
> present. When that happens, I'll cast away my default deny configurations
> and advise other people to do the same.
>
> Until then, though, I hope you understand why I suggest that default deny
> is no less sensible a precaution than locking the front door in a busy city.
>
> Nick
Hum.. perhaps a poor analogy. Tokyo is a busy city, yet I know
quite a few people who don;t lock their doors there. Redondo Beach
is quite a bit less busy, but -everyone- locks their doors and anything
else of value.
Its the culture of ethics of the individiual, not the density of
individuals.
/bill
