[54719] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Scaled Back Cybersecuruty
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vijay Gill)
Tue Jan 14 14:07:16 2003
To: Avi Freedman <freedman@freedman.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Vijay Gill <vgill@vijaygill.com>
Date: 14 Jan 2003 19:06:30 +0000
In-Reply-To: <200301141543.KAA13464@freedman.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Avi Freedman <freedman@freedman.net> writes:
> Perhaps the Feds (and maybe states) could use their purchasing power
> to effect change. Short of that, or regulation, the I don't see how
> the serious issues we have with the 'net will get resolved.
>
> I suppose that the "problem" is likely that people don't understand
> what a nice actually well-written worm could/would do if it were
> targeted at the infrastructure.
People do. I've been beating this particular horse for a while now,
and we are starting to deploy the capex hammer. I suggest others start
to do the same. See my presentation at the eugene nanog.
/vijay
