[70190] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worms versus Bots
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chuck goolsbee)
Tue May 4 16:53:38 2004
In-Reply-To: <200405042005.i44K5BHt004878@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 13:51:08 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: chuck goolsbee <chucklist@forest.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > In other words: if one is stupid, one gets worm'ed or bot'ed.
>
>However, up to 90% of the users *are* stupid:
>
>http://www.silicon.com/software/security/0,39024655,39118228,00.htm
>
>Any network security scheme that fails to either (a) lower the stupidity rate
>or (b) deliver a system that will protect that 90% from themselves is doomed.
"There's only so much stupidity you can compensate for;
there comes a point where you compensate for so much
stupidity that it starts to cause problems for the
people who actually think in a normal way."
--Bill Dickson, digital.forest tech support
Which leads to the logical conclusion:
>We may be looking at a move back towards the WebTV appliance model (which
>would thrill the media conglomerates to no end).
=)
Seriosuly though, the Internet might be a better place for it. After
all, 90% of those "stupid" people just want email and HTTP.
--chuck
