COVID-19 vs. our Networks

Thu Mar 12 20:37:01 UTC 2020

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 4:32 PM Matthew Petach <mpetach at netflight.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 1:04 PM Tom Beecher <beecher at beecher.cc> wrote:
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>> I like the topic, but I think we should dispense with comments like 'house arrest'.
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> Agreed.
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> The situation is already plenty serious as it is.
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> Let's not add any more fuel to the fire.
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> ...though, on a slightly related note, I've been seeing an increase in ads for "Packet Scrubbing Services" recently.
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> Has anyone told the sales folks that's not how this spreads?   ;P

nice.

So.. ~2 wks back I left a comment in a thread about: "using vpns is
dumb" (paraphrased) and that: "You should just move your auth from 'by
ip' to 'application' based'.

people scrambling for vpn capacity...see what i mean? :)
if all of your apps are web-based and behind a load-balancer (or dns
load-balancing or...) less problems/different problems, eh? :)

I still stand by the 'ugh, don't use vpns' though - if you can avoid
that I mean... which really, you can .. maybe not 'right now
because...' but :)