Re: Security of National Infrastructure

["Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell () gmail com>]

And then I can refuse to read anything that comes from the US. After all,
the pharma spam is clearly targeted on US residents. But what about all the
Alice.it/Telecom Italia spam? Killfile the whole country, clearly. And the
Chinese porno spam? And the Russian hackers?

I remember there used to be something called the Internet..

On 12/30/06, Chris L. Morrow <christopher.morrow () verizonbusiness com> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Randy Bush wrote:
> > > Why is it that every company out there allows connections through
> their
> > > firewalls to their web and mail infrastructure from countries that
> they
> > > don't even do business in. Shouldn't it be our default to only allow
> US
> > > based IP addresses and then allow others as needed? The only case I
> can
> > > think of would be traveling folks that need to VPN or something, which
> > > could be permitted in the Firewall, but WHY WIDE OPEN ACCESS? We still
> > > seem to be in the wild west, but no-one has the b@lls to be braven and
> > > block the unnecessary access.
> >
> > maybe because those godless communist sexually deviant vicious perverts
> > out there in the rest of the world are damned hard to differentiate from
> > the sexually deviant vicious perverts we have in our government?
> >
> > and there money is still good.  you may want to look at the balance of
> > trade and worry about the opposite flow.
>
> I think the better answer is: "your network your choices, my network my
> choices"