"Who Protects The Internet?" (TechCrunch, via slashdot)

[Paul Vixie <vixie () isc org>]

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"Basically no one. At most, a number of loose confederations of computer
scientists and engineers who seek to devise better protocols practices and
unincorporated groups like the Internet Engineering Task Force and the
North American Network Operators Group. But the fact remains that no one
really owns security online, which leads to gated communities firewalls
with a highly unreliable and wasteful way to try to assure security."  

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http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/02/who-protects-the-internet/
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