[71432] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: "Default" Internet Service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Jun 14 19:15:34 2004
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:03:32 -0700
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
To: "Smith, Donald" <Donald.Smith@qwest.com>,
Matthew Sullivan <matthew@sorbs.net>
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9921AB57EA49D242A076864C5F473D3C64FFEA@itdene2km08.AD.QINTRA.COM>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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>> Smith, Donald wrote:
>>
>> > First are the consumers willing to pay for a "safer" internet
>> > DSL/dial/isdn?
>> >
>> Why should they have to?
>
> Because it costs money to mitigate the attacks coming from their
> infected machines.
> It takes people and people want to be paid. Given a larger security
> abuse team we could do more.
>
That's a reason abusers should have to pay cleanup fees. It's not a
reason responsible or naive users should pay more for a safer internet
unless they choose to.
Owen
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