[67282] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Stopping open proxies and open relays
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Sat Feb 7 00:45:29 2004
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 21:43:00 -0800
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "Vivien M." <vivienm@dyndns.org>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Vivien M. wrote:
> Now, if hooking up an unsecured computer to a network was
> punishable by a $1000 fine, and law enforcement somehow
> had the staff to prosecute all offenders (or a
> representative sample), I'm sure everybody would agree
> that suddenly they'd be able to afford antiviruses.
It's not that I don't like the idea, but it's been tried before. Making
stupidity punishable by fines does not work; if it did we would not have
a budget deficit issue.
Michel.
