[61589] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What do you want your ISP to block today?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Sat Aug 30 14:10:23 2003
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 14:09:40 -0400
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
To: "Matthew S. Hallacy" <poptix@techmonkeys.org>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030830055814.GX13598@techmonkeys.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Saturday, Aug 30, 2003, at 01:58 Canada/Eastern, Matthew S. Hallacy
wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:42:16PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
>> North Texas charges students $30 if their computer is infected, and
>> needs
>> to be cleaned.
>
> Excellent, perhaps they'll learn early that they have to patch often.
That won't save them when the time required to download the patch set
is an order of magnitude greater than the mean time to infection.
Seems to me that it would be far more effective to simply prohibit
connection of machines without acceptable operating systems to the
network. That would send a more appropriate message to the vendor, too
(better than "don't bother to test before you release, we'll pay to
clean up the resulting mess").
Joe
