[59139] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mobile code security (was Re: rr style scanning of non-customers)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Butterworth)
Mon Jun 16 10:44:43 2003
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:43:41 +0100 (BST)
From: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> the thing that actually burns my hash, is when my spam
> complaints or noc correspondance are robotically bounced because they
> contain dangerous mime attachments of type "message/rfc822" (spam
> examples) or "text/plain" (traceroute or tcpdump output). if your noc
> or abusedesk has such a robot protecting it, you ought to be ashamed.
Or they may be happy thinking their NOC is more 0day virus proof rather
than hoping a 3rd party will update their scanner in time
Who'd want to risk the NOC falling to the same problem that's just
taken out the network they're trying to fix?
brandon
