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Re: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps
From: batz <batsy () vapour net>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:20:29 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Sean Donelan wrote: :Assuming no time, money, people, etc resource constraints; securing the :Internet is pretty simple. Assuming you are referring to "securing" as the balance of the holy triuvirate of Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability, there are other options than the modest proposals you made. The ISP doesn't have to manage the firewall, but like I said earlier, if they provided a configurable filter in the form of a web interface to altering access-lists applied to the customers connection, this would solve most problems. It's not so much a question of what needs to be done, the technical solutions are always the easy part. It is a question of who needs to do it. - If OS vendors didn't ship their products with all those services open, we wouldn't need to protect users with default firewall policies. - If all users suddenly had an epiphany and could go to M$.com and click one link to lock down their home machines, M$ could keep shipping their consumer-grade hacker-bait to soccer moms and children. Maybe they can use their monopoly for something constructive for a change. - If the government said that a cyberattack was emminent and launched a WWII style propaganda campaign along the lines of "loose lips sink ships" maybe people might catch on. This might sound silly, but it worked for Y2k. So, modest proposals for draconian feature enhancements and creating arbitrary consumer and provider class users, are thankfully still funny. -- batz
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- Re: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps, (continued)
- Re: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps William Warren (Oct 27)
- Re: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps Christopher Schulte (Oct 27)
- RE: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps Vivien M. (Oct 27)
- RE: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps alex (Oct 28)
- RE: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps Scott Granados (Oct 28)
- Re: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 28)
- Re: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps Joe (Oct 27)
- Re: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps dgold (Oct 29)
- Re: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps Matthew S. Hallacy (Oct 27)
- Re: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps Petri Helenius (Oct 25)
- Re: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps batz (Oct 25)
- Re: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps Michael Lamoureux (Oct 25)
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- Re: DNS issues various Daniel Senie (Oct 25)
- Re: DNS issues various dre (Oct 24)
- Re: DNS issues various Richard A Steenbergen (Oct 24)
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- Re: DNS issues various Rob Thomas (Oct 24)
- Re: DNS issues various Richard A Steenbergen (Oct 24)
- Re: DNS issues various Daniel Senie (Oct 25)