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Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11


From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () mykolab com>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 18:01:36 -0700

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On 10/21/2016 5:52 PM, Laszlo Hanyecz wrote:


On 2016-10-22 00:39, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
P.S.  To all of you Ayn Rand devotees out there who still
vociferously argue that it's nobody else's business how you
monitor or police your "private" networks, and who still refuse
to take even minimalist steps (like BCP 38), congratulations.

What does BCP38 have to do with this?  All that does is block one 
specific type of attack (and cause a lot of collateral damage).
The IoT devices do not need to spoof addresses - they can just
generate attack traffic directly.  This is even better, because you
can't cut those eyeball addresses off - those are the same
addresses your target audience is using.  If you cut off the
eyeball networks there's not much point to running an internet
business website anymore.


Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

- - ferg (BCP38 instigator)


- -- 
Paul Ferguson
ICEBRG.io, Seattle USA
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