[65403] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us??????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean M.Doran)
Tue Nov 25 12:21:02 2003
In-Reply-To: <3FC2763B.70005@affinitas.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Sean M.Doran <smd@cesium.clock.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:20:26 +0000
To: Gerardo Gregory <ggregory@affinitas.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 24 Nov, 2003, at 21:20, Gerardo Gregory wrote:
> [NAT and PAT] is not a security feature, neither does it provide any
> real security, just ... translations.
"You can't curse it if you don't know its name" -- Len Bosack on this
issue, Reykjavik, March 2003.
> Just cause your broadband router (ahem, switch) vendor states that NAT
> (in reality PAT) as one of their security 'knobs' does not make it in
> any way a security feature when implemented.
Oh drat. So much for Len.
Sean.
