[61607] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What do you want your ISP to block today?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew S. Hallacy)
Sun Aug 31 01:07:40 2003
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 00:04:51 -0500
From: "Matthew S. Hallacy" <poptix@techmonkeys.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200308301853.h7UIrk5s014200@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
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On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 02:53:46PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> This, in fact, is the single biggest thorn in our side at the moment. It'=
s hard
> to adopt a pious "patch your broken box" attitude when the user can't get=
it
> patched without getting 0wned first...
>=20
This is where you start forcing users through a captive portal to the update
site of their vendor, I think they'll get the idea when every site they try=
to
bring up turns out to be windowsupdate.microsoft.com
[snip]
> Given the Lion worm that hit Linux boxes, and the fact there's apparently=
a
> known remote-root (since fixed) for Apple's OSX, what operating systems w=
ould
> you consider "acceptable"?
Anything that's not currently infected, and is patched to the current 'safe'
level.
--=20
Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified
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