[84422] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Katrina Network Damage Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott A Crosby)
Tue Sep 13 05:20:33 2005
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
From: Scott A Crosby <scrosby@cs.rice.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 04:20:04 -0500
In-Reply-To: <FACFC623-3AEB-488C-9E66-57BBA75AC222@muada.com> (Iljitsch van
Beijnum's message of "Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:47:00 +0200")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:47:00 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com> writes:
> On 12-sep-2005, at 2:47, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
>> Amazingly enough, the *single* biggest problem in trying to get Joe
>> Sixpack to secure their systems is "But I don't have anything
>> they'd be interested in..."
>
> Security isn't an end in itself. For instance, I don't care enough
> about people using up my paper and ink to secure my print server
> against remote printing.
When the number of open print servers exceeds a threshold, I predict
that 'innovative marketers' will start using zombied toasters to send
advertisements to all open print servers they can find.
And at that point, security matters very much.
Scott
