[47954] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Sun May 19 06:18:00 2002
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 03:16:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: Scott Gifford <sgifford@suspectclass.com>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
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On 18 May 2002, Scott Gifford wrote:
> Before choosing an onling bank, I portscanned the networks of the
> banks I was considering. It was the only way I could find to get a
> rough assessment of their network security, which was important to me
> as a customer for obvious reasons.
So for your offline banks, do you also go to the local branches at night
and jiggle all the locks to make sure their doors and windows are locked?
-Dan
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