[63427] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Security v. Privacy (was Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Sun Oct 5 16:59:27 2003
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 20:58:49 +0000
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0310051600220.2701-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sean Donelan [05/10/03 16:49 -0400]:
> There are some differences between private networks and public networks.
> In a company, the company is the "owner" of the PCs and employees (in the
Very true - and that was the context I mentioned this in.
> So from an ISPs point of view, is there a way for the ISP to quickly
> tell the customer if the particular computer is fixed without unduly
Isolate his IP and have all outbound http redirected to a page that
says "please call [escalated tech support number]" to get this fixed.
Seems to be the only reasonably foolproof way.
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