BCP38 dismissal

Jo Rhett jrhett at netconsonance.com
Thu Sep 4 16:45:15 UTC 2008


On Sep 4, 2008, at 7:24 AM, James Jun wrote:
> Indeed... In today's internet, protecting your own box (cp-policer/ 
> control
> plane filtering) is far more important IMO than implementing BCP38  
> when much
> of attack traffic comes from legitimate IP sources anyway (see  
> botnets).


I'm sorry, but nonsense statements such as these burn the blood.   
Sure, yes, protecting yourself is so much more important than  
protecting anyone else.

Anyone else want to stand up and join the "I am an asshole" club?

-- 
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness






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