[70973] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Real-Time Mitigation of Denial of Service Attacks Now Available With AT&T
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexei Roudnev)
Thu Jun 3 01:52:39 2004
From: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex@relcom.net>
To: "Patrick W.Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Cc: "Patrick W.Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 22:52:05 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hmm - please try to patch windows box, having 19200bps dialin connection and
living in a small town. It's almost impossible..
Q. is - why this !@#$ MS open ports for listening on _CLIENT_ machines (when
no one asked them about it),
and why they created the world of monocultural OS systems. This is the roots
for this problem. Patching is just a _patching_.
People are not lazy - it is just IMPOSSIBLE to patch millions of this
systems.
PS. Sendmail... who told _sendmail_?! Did you tried to patch sendmail, when
it was installed from unknown sources and
configured by unknown m4 file, and sources was lost when engineer was fired
2 years ago? You are welcome to try, I can find such system for you.
>
> On Jun 2, 2004, at 12:26 PM, Michel Py wrote:
>
> > Woulda, shoulda. If it is so simple, how come not everyone does it?
>
> Why don't people patch their windows boxes, or secure old sendmail
> installations? Why do people flap announcements, or accept bogons?
> Why do people jay walk, or cheat on their taxes? Why do people do
> anything else they should not do?
>
> 'Cause people are lazy and stupid. DUH.
>
> --
> TTFN,
> patrick
>
