[80185] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Wed Apr 27 02:37:20 2005
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:36:54 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <2147483647.1114555079@[172.17.1.152]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:38:00PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
> I think it's absurd. I expect my water delivery company not to add
> polutants in transit. I expect my water production company to provide
> clean water.
er.. bad analogy warning... please take a sample of tap water to
an independent lab for analysis... and find out just what the
water company is putting into your water.
> This is like asking the phone company to prevent minors from hearing
> swear-words on telephone calls or prevent people from being able to make
> prank phone calls from pay-phones.
>
more bad analogies... :)
>
> Owen
> >- ferg
that said, if you don't want your ISP to diddle your packets,
may i suggest IPSEC?
--bill
