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Re: Wanted: Simple home security
From: InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 04:09:25 -0500 (CDT)
Forwarded from: Dave Close <dave () compata com> InfoSec News wrote:
By Jon Oltsik What's needed is a simple home security service with two dominant features:
If such security can be provided by a black box at the consumer end, then why can't it also be provided by a black box at the ISP end? The cost should be even lower due to scale, and the reliability should be higher due to active management. I think the real problem is that this author hasn't bothered to define "security". Implicitly, he seems to mean that bandwidth won't be choked by viruses and spam. Of course, in itself that does nothing to protect a home network. And so long as bandwidth is not metered, the home user has no incentive to help. -- Dave Close, Compata, Costa Mesa CA +1 714 434 7359 dave () compata com dhclose () alumni caltech edu "It will take more than an Act of Congress to persuade me that women and men are the same." - Oliver Wendell Holmes _________________________________________ Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB) Everything is Vulnerable - http://www.osvdb.org/
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