The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat?
Jim Popovitch
jimpop at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 19 20:48:51 UTC 2006
Jerry Pasker wrote:
>
> The point is: What's more damaging? Being open with the maps to
> EVERYONE can see where the problem areas are so they can design around
> them? (or chose not to) or pulling the maps, and reports, and sticking
> our heads in the sand, and hoping that security through obscurity works.
Let's look at this from another point of view: Should we remove all
keylocks from backhoes so that everyone can have access to them? :-)
I'm all for openness, but sometimes some things only need to be accessed
and used by the professionals that need those things. I fully trust
that the big network operators, the ones that really really do need this
data, have all the info they need to plan their network expansions, etc.
I don't need to see this data, even though I might want to.
-Jim P.
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