[80222] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Lewis)
Wed Apr 27 09:26:19 2005
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0504270028100.4030@sokol.elan.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:25:55 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz>
Cc: ed.lewis@neustar.biz
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>clean it up from pollutants [spam, ddos], add antibacterial
>[antivirus] agents,
;) My hotel confirmation for NANOG 34 was marked as spam.
Thankfully, the ISP let it through anyway.
It would be nice if the ISPs protected me from bad stuff on the
Internet - but why are they to be held to a higher standard than
similar services?
E.g., (not intended as a water-tight analogy) the roads around me
have laws and enforcement (sometimes). If I am hit by someone who
breaks a rule, my insurance takes care of that. But the road system
offers no protection to guarantee my on-time arrival at a Wednesday
night beering session. (No over-provisioning there.)
If we can't make it easy to get to happy hour, how are we going to
make the Internet safe?
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