[71182] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Even you can be hacked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Shultz)
Thu Jun 10 14:42:31 2004
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:19:56 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: "Jeff Shultz" <jeffshultz@wvi.com>
Reply-To: "Jeff Shultz" <jeffshultz@wvi.com>
In-Reply-To: <40C8A333.6060904@cox.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
** Reply to message from "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr."
<LarrySheldon@cox.net> on Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:06:43 -0500
> Jeff Shultz wrote:
>
>
> > But ultimately, _you_ are responsible for your own systems.
>
> Even if the water company is sending me 85% TriChlorEthane?
>
> Right. Got it. The victim is always responsible.
>
> There you have it folks.
A. Straw man
B. Apple/Kumquat arguement
Who is the victim here? The user who's computer was infected due to
their own lack of responsibilty (and was not fixed... remember that
part, _was_not_fixed_), or the ISP who isn't going to get a rebate on
their upstream bandwidth bill that was in turn inflated by that
customer.
--
Jeff Shultz
A railfan pulls up to a RR crossing hoping that
there will be a train.
