[90663] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: a fun hijack: 1/8, 2/8, 3/8, 4/8, 5/8, 7/8, 8/8, 12/8 briefly
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Fri Jun 9 10:06:27 2006
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 06:11:23 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Ariel Biener <ariel@post.tau.ac.il>
Cc: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>,
Josh Karlin <karlinjf@cs.unm.edu>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200606081347.50290.ariel@post.tau.ac.il>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Ariel Biener wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 June 2006 21:58, Gadi Evron wrote:
> Gadi,
>
> There's no real need for such drastic measures over this. The Internet is no
> longer a "safe" place, meaning that the sane NSPs/ISPs sanitize their networks
> rather than trust someone else to do it for them, or trust someone else to never
> make mistakes. As such, the diligent network operators and their networks will
> not even be affected by this.
Indeed, the Internet is not a safe place. It always surprises me when
people think otherwise. Regardles, it is a place where someone else's
mistake can cost YOU.
> Also, there is a sentence that I like, I learned it from a proffessor here, but it
> is well known:
>
> "Never attribute to malice something that can be easily explained by sheer stupidity".
One of the most true I ever heard, and indeed, stupidity does hurt
us. Does it matter if it is malicious by /intent/?
>
>
> best,
>
> --Ariel
> --
> Ariel Biener
> e-mail: ariel@post.tau.ac.il
> PGP: http://www.tau.ac.il/~ariel/pgp.html
>
