[79350] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: so, how would you justify giving users security? [was: Re: botted hosts]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Mon Apr 4 14:26:54 2005
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 14:25:12 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <42518B92.80803@linuxbox.org>; from Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org> on Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:46:42PM +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:46:42PM +0200, Gadi Evron wrote:
> As a geek, do you not want the Internet to still be here *completely*
> OPEN and FREE in the future?
And this is the point question.
Much innovation is due to the open end-to-end characteristic of the
current network.
By all means, let's trap port 25 where possible, for those who don't
care (or ask), but let's not go all baby-and-bathwater by filtering
*everything* either...
Cheers,
-- jra
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