[96555] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Broadband routers and botnets - being proactive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun May 13 23:44:46 2007
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 23:43:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0705131415340.435-100000@linuxbox.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 13 May 2007, Gadi Evron wrote:
> "Passing the buck! Buck passer!" (see below - skip to Dilbert link)
I guess you missed my attempts 3 or 4 years ago at trying to establish
some standards for CPE concerning security. I've been at this party for
a long time, I know how the song ends.
> Not saying that you are wrong but... Ahh, these are out of our
> control, nor will they do anything if we don't. Might as well tell users
> not to patch their Windows systems as it's the responsibility of the store
> who sold them the computer. Yes, it could help if the stores did
> something.
I spent about a year of my life working with Microsoft on getting patched
versions of Windows in the pipeline and getting OEMs to regularly update
their manufacturing copy being pre-installed on machines as they leave
the factory. So yes, it did help to improve things in the pipeline.
