Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

Wed Apr 27 06:36:54 UTC 2005

On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:38:00PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
> I think it's absurd.  I expect my water delivery company not to add
> polutants in transit.  I expect my water production company to provide
> clean water.

	er.. bad analogy warning... please take a sample of tap water to 
	an independent lab for analysis...  and find out just what the
	water company is putting into your water.  
	
> This is like asking the phone company to prevent minors from hearing
> swear-words on telephone calls or prevent people from being able to make
> prank phone calls from pay-phones.
> 

	more bad analogies... :)

> 
> Owen
> >- ferg

	that said, if you don't want your ISP to diddle your packets,
	may i suggest IPSEC?

--bill