[88069] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Thu Jan 19 15:49:38 2006
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:48:51 -0500
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <a06200704bff58ecbef3a@[66.6.34.254]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Jerry Pasker wrote:
>
> The point is: What's more damaging? Being open with the maps to
> EVERYONE can see where the problem areas are so they can design around
> them? (or chose not to) or pulling the maps, and reports, and sticking
> our heads in the sand, and hoping that security through obscurity works.
Let's look at this from another point of view: Should we remove all
keylocks from backhoes so that everyone can have access to them? :-)
I'm all for openness, but sometimes some things only need to be accessed
and used by the professionals that need those things. I fully trust
that the big network operators, the ones that really really do need this
data, have all the info they need to plan their network expansions, etc.
I don't need to see this data, even though I might want to.
-Jim P.
