[54722] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Scaled Back Cybersecuruty
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Tue Jan 14 14:27:10 2003
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:26:38 -0500
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@freedman.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <103014.14855.19429@avi.netaxs.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In article <103014.14855.19429@avi.netaxs.com> Vijay the Budget Master wrote:
: 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
Many networks of sizable import have no capex budget, though - or
sometimes very little if no engineering resources. They all pay
attention to sales - and especially to RFIs and RFQs from the Feds,
though.
Avi
