[97438] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Thu Jun 14 15:29:52 2007
Date: 14 Jun 2007 19:29:02 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
In-Reply-To: <5B3E9A01-0990-4673-B0BB-EB76BDDF027B@ianai.net>
To: patrick@ianai.net, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>In general, creating a sandbox where a computer can only reach
>$UPDATE_SERVER is very, very difficult.
I believe it. Perhaps we could help Microsoft make it easier. The
sandbox doesn't have to include all their servers, just enough of
them to service the sandboxed users.
> And, as much as I hate to admit it, MS OSes are not the only ones
>that can be compromised (he types on his black MacBook).
If we can get sandboxes for MS and Apple, we FreeBSD users are willing
to take our chances.
R's,
John
