[38948] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Few questions to the american ISPs [Re: DDOS anecdotes]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Sat Jun 23 22:18:42 2001
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 22:12:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
To: Pim van Riezen <pi@vuurwerk.nl>
Cc: "Christopher A. Woodfield" <rekoil@semihuman.com>,
Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.EU.net>, nanog@merit.edu,
"Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>
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On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
>
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Pim van Riezen wrote:
>
> > The many ways in which cable providers fail to care about security is
> > mindboggling.
>
> Actually doing something about security would cut into the bottom line,
> so they don't do it.
That doesn't look right to me. I should say "actually doing something to
educate people about security." It's unlikely that there are no security
measures at all in place at the cable providers...
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