[59932] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT: Re: User negligence?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Len Rose)
Sun Jul 27 01:38:30 2003
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 01:37:24 -0400
From: Len Rose <len@netsys.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0307270113310.15501-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hi Sean,
I seem to have misunderstood you.. I assumed you were speaking
about an internal system (in the bank itself) I didn't read
the article you posted and without that I suppose I was in
the wrong context. Maybe.
Sean Donelan wrote:
{zap]
> It a breach of security of the *USER'S* computer, not the *BANK'S*
> computers.
See above.
> How many people do you know have a full-time systems staff mainaining
> their home PCs?
See above.
> If they are lucky, they might have a clever teenager in the house which
> helps their parents set the clock on the VCR and unpack the PC they bought
> at Best Buy. If they aren't lucky, it was probably the same clever
> teenager that downloaded the trojaned software on the parent's PC.
> Is the Bank or ISP supposed to send suppport staff to each customer's
> house to maintain host level security on customer's home PCs? The bank
> didn't sell the customer the computer or the Microsoft software, didn't
> install software on the home PC, and doesn't maintain the home PC.
See above.
> Outlook, the exploding Pinto on the information superhighway.
Microsoft, Who wants to get owned today?
Len
PS Susan, I swear I won't do this again, please don't yell at me.
