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Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris () UU NET>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:08:56 +0000 (GMT)
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Jack Bates wrote:
Christopher L. Morrow wrote:This is the point, atleast I, have been trying to make for 2 years... end systems, or as close to that as possible, need to police themselves, the granularity and filtering capabilities (content filtering even) are available at that level alone.I agree with you Chris, but I also believe that temp filters do have a role, even at backbones. One of my peers appears to be helping out my
the problem is, at the backbone level, its a very large hammer... and often the peg is round while the hole is square :(
Honestly, it would be nice to offer different classes of service, allowing user's that are semi-protected and user's that are free and clear. The issue with doing so is dealing with the liability of
this is called 'managed firewall service' and some ISP's do a good business with it, some even advertise their service and market it too! :) There are some sticky points with managed firewall services that still need ironing out (on a per-provider basis atleast) but its a great start, and the filtering is done at the 'right' place, near the end node...
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- Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus Stephen J. Wilcox (Aug 13)
- Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus Mans Nilsson (Aug 13)
- Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus Stephen J. Wilcox (Aug 13)
- Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus Mans Nilsson (Aug 13)
- Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 13)
- Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus Jack Bates (Aug 13)
- Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 13)
- Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus Petri Helenius (Aug 13)
- Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus Niels Bakker (Aug 13)
- Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 13)
- RE: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus Bob German (Aug 12)
- Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus Jack Bates (Aug 12)
- Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus mike harrison (Aug 12)
- Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus Jack Bates (Aug 12)
- Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 12)