ISPs' willingness to take action

Mon Oct 27 13:28:22 UTC 2003

> I'm really surprised to hear the assertion that people are
> leaving unfirewalled Exchange servers out on the net.
> Is this actually common?    /shudders...

I don't think that the small shops know any better.  It's
a matter of education, and in most of the cases I've seen
the education has been painful.

VPN technologies are either too weak, like PPTP, too
expensive or difficult to grasp like IPsec, or too new
like the HTTPS tunnels.

I don't recall the source, but it was recently reported
that 40% of the exchange server base is still on the v5.5
platform.   Using that as a general indication, many of
these shops probably won't plan to upgrade anytime soon.

-John