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Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism
From: Matt Ghali <matt () snark net>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 18:26:26 -0700 (PDT)
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Kevin Day wrote:
I think the lesson here is that any service you make available to the public (NTP, DNS, IRC, SMTP, whatever) is going to be used in ways that do not match with your desires. If you're not willing to ACL/police the service, you're going to have to accept that people are going to use it in ways you'd rather they didn't.
The repeated suggestions that the best response to this sort of situation is to 'deal with it' are saddening. Did he "deserve it" because of the short skirt he was wearing?
Companies behaving irresponsibly and releasing (selling!) code that abuses a shared public resource should not be the norm.
Lots of people crap in the commons. But saying it is inevitable, and actually mocking people who care, is inexcusable.
Someone's accountable here, and in this case it is simple to determine who. The behavior is clearly antisocial and should be addressed.
Member-waving about spare gigabit ports and what traffic levels are inconsequential really is beside the point.
matto PS: This puts D-Link on the same list I had Belkin and Netgear on. --matt () snark net------------------------------------------<darwin>< Moral indignation is a technique to endow the idiot with dignity. - Marshall McLuhan
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- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism, (continued)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Rubens Kuhl Jr. (Apr 07)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Jeff Shultz (Apr 07)
- RE: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Mark Borchers (Apr 07)
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- Re: Which Cisco 7500 OS for high availability Alain Hebert (Apr 10)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Steven M. Bellovin (Apr 07)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Richard A Steenbergen (Apr 07)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Mark Boolootian (Apr 07)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Kevin Day (Apr 07)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Matt Ghali (Apr 07)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Todd Vierling (Apr 07)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Robert E . Seastrom (Apr 08)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Suresh Ramasubramanian (Apr 08)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 08)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Simon Lockhart (Apr 08)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Jared Mauch (Apr 08)