Latest instalment of the "hijacked /16s" story
Jared Mauch
jared at puck.nether.net
Wed Jun 18 12:25:39 UTC 2008
On Jun 18, 2008, at 7:57 AM, Joe Provo wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:59:21PM -0700, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote:
> [snip]
>> "See no evil, hear no evil, fear no evil"
>
> The (human) operators who cared have been pushed out by the
> (coprorate) operators who would rather disavow responsibility,
> turn up quickly, and book the revenue instead of vetting any
> customer claims for basis in fact or reason. Customer
> filtering -even when black hats drive an AS- is Not Hard if
> the backbones (nets) displayed actual backbone (spine).
I would argue the same for any/all security issues. If people would
just shut off $VALUE, we'd have a lot fewer problems on the network.
I will concede the problem is making it scale and viable for some
parties. The ones that don't make the inherent security of the global
network a priority are dragging the average down.
- jared
VALUE = ( infected host ip/customer, route leaker/hijacker,
nonfiltering customer, ... )
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