[187050] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: de-peering for security sake
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Sat Jan 16 09:53:46 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 09:53:40 -0500
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAD6AjGTf1YeGMykikZxDnTsLnNbZh=YYjOw1hj=hLeA32hD+9A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 05:43:56AM -0800, Ca By wrote:
> I see a great deal of folks on nanog clamoring to buy ddos gear. Packets
> are starting to become like spam email, where 90% are pure rubbish, and
> us good guys have to spend a lot of money and time sorting signal from
> noise.
I've said this many times: abuse does not magically fall out of the sky.
It comes from hosts, on networks, run by people. It is time -- well
past time -- to hold those people *personally* acountable.
Not doing so leaves us where we are today: millions -- heck, hundreds
of millions -- of dollars are being spent on defenses THAT WOULD NOT
BE NECESSARY if those people performed their jobs at a mere baseline
level of competence and diligence.
---rsk
