[93857] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Security of National Infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris L. Morrow)
Fri Dec 29 21:38:30 2006
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:37:23 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
In-reply-to: <45959663.1030406@psg.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: The Shadow <shadow@geek-guy.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Randy Bush wrote:
> > Why is it that every company out there allows connections through their
> > firewalls to their web and mail infrastructure from countries that they
> > don't even do business in. Shouldn't it be our default to only allow US
> > based IP addresses and then allow others as needed? The only case I can
> > think of would be traveling folks that need to VPN or something, which
> > could be permitted in the Firewall, but WHY WIDE OPEN ACCESS? We still
> > seem to be in the wild west, but no-one has the b@lls to be braven and
> > block the unnecessary access.
>
> maybe because those godless communist sexually deviant vicious perverts
> out there in the rest of the world are damned hard to differentiate from
> the sexually deviant vicious perverts we have in our government?
>
> and there money is still good. you may want to look at the balance of
> trade and worry about the opposite flow.
I think the better answer is: "your network your choices, my network my
choices"
