[95001] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: botnets: web servers, end-systems and Vint Cerf
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Blessing)
Fri Feb 16 13:34:41 2007
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:56:42 +0000
From: James Blessing <james.blessing@entagroup.com>
To: michael.dillon@bt.com, nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <2DA00C5A2146FB41ABDB3E9FCEBC74C10106700B@i2km07-ukbr.domain1.systemhost.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
> You misunderstand. The problem of securing machines *IS* solved. It is
> possible. It is regularly done with servers connected to the Internet.
> There is no *COMPUTING* problem or technical problem.
True *BUT* (and this is a really big but) it requires that you do something
*BEFORE* you connect it to the Internet.
> The problem of the 100 million machines is a social or business problem.
> We know how they can be secured, but the solution is not being
> implemented.
Whilst the problem is social in terms of people not knowing/wanting to do the
securing before connecting, the technical solution is to make the software
secure by default. If you think anything else then you are delusional.
J
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