[80205] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Wed Apr 27 05:42:21 2005
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:41:53 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Jerry Pasker <info@n-connect.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <a06200704be94c35dbb4b@[66.6.34.245]>
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On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Jerry Pasker wrote:
> >I've been there -- I know how I feel about it -- but I'd love to know how ISP
> >operations folk feel about this.
>
> It means 10 different things to 10 different people. The article was
yep, and the danger is you agree with the article and some politicians or
journalists think you are advocating a full police service which would be bad.
i do think we have an obligation to try to keep the net clean to a certain
degree, think anti-ddos wg's etc but providing full security for all users is
unrealistic. there seems to be some moves to offering partial security and this
is probably a good thing eg blocking common ms ports will likely be effective.
Steve
