Packet anonymity is the problem?

Sun Apr 11 18:28:24 UTC 2004

Joe Provo wrote:

> I have heard the 'assymetric cost/benefit' rationale for the
>
>bad laziness (sloppiness, not the larry wall-esque 'good' 
>laziness of automation) on and off the last few years. 
>Similarly, I have heard about the tremendous cost of sloppiness 
>and human error in terms of root-cause for networking badness 
>for the past several years.
>
>  
>
Maybe there should be more "neighborhood intelligent" worms which would 
target resources that are within the vicinity of the compromised host. 
SMTP, WWW, etc. services. That way the effects would be most devastating 
for the lazy.

Pete