[84327] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Katrina Network Damage Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Sun Sep 11 13:04:14 2005
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From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:01:21 +0200
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 11-sep-2005, at 14:40, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> And seriously, does the main assumption of v6, that every single
> toaster out there is going to become a v6 host, really not scare
> anyone?
Nope. I guess people have other things that scare them... See subject.
> Giving IP connectivity to stuff that was just not designed
> from a security point of view .. I'm sure people have seen all the
> stories about network printers and electron microscopes running open
> relay smtp daemons, so when do I get to see a botnet full of
> compromised toasters that'll burn your toast to cinders if you try to
> disinfect them?
Well, because I want to NAT some stuff (i.e., Windows XP box...) and
not other stuff (the machines that I actually use) my wireless base
station that is also a print server needs to accept print jobs from
both "the outside" and "the inside". So far, I haven't found any spam
printouts yet...
In other words: 0wning random appliances isn't all that interesting.
In fact, I would much rather allow access to pretty much anything
else rather than a powerful general-purpose computer.
