[69437] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Packet anonymity is the problem?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sun Apr 11 14:29:03 2004
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 21:28:24 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040411115808.GA79442@gweep.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Joe Provo wrote:
> I have heard the 'assymetric cost/benefit' rationale for the
>
>bad laziness (sloppiness, not the larry wall-esque 'good'
>laziness of automation) on and off the last few years.
>Similarly, I have heard about the tremendous cost of sloppiness
>and human error in terms of root-cause for networking badness
>for the past several years.
>
>
>
Maybe there should be more "neighborhood intelligent" worms which would
target resources that are within the vicinity of the compromised host.
SMTP, WWW, etc. services. That way the effects would be most devastating
for the lazy.
Pete
