[68072] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Mar 1 13:59:53 2004
To: Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Mar 2004 10:35:05 PST."
<20040301183505.4305.qmail@web80509.mail.yahoo.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 13:59:16 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 10:35:05 PST, Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net> said:
> Everyday there is a new, news article on this and every day everyone
> panics and eeryday some one says tell the government to make a law, it is time
> to realize that no law is going to do anything for anyone soon. In the past we
> just took care of the problem and we can do the same now by sharing the solutions we
> shared then for FREE.
The basic problem is that for the average ISP, requiring the users to have a
clue and to use secure software is financial suicide. <insert obligatory Randy
Bush reference here>. Until something happens to change the cost/benefit
ratios, we're stuck with it. Remember that vendor lock-in is an issue - why
should the user spend all the time/money of obtaining new software and learning
how to use it if they're currently not experiencing high amounts of cost/pain?
Many users will write off "I'm only losing 2 or 3 days of work a year due to
virus/worms" and balance that against "Moving to <anything else> would screw
things up for 2 weeks while I relearn and reconfigure", and decide it's not
worth changing...
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