Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Fri Apr 29 15:42:43 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.

Water delivery is unidirectional, otherwise water utilities would infact
have to filter out bad things introduced by notional bad actors which
could cause other users problems and risks.

See "tragedy of the commons".

Do I think *everyone* should do this sort of thing?  No. 

Do I think people should be regulated into doing it?  Well, my knee
jerk reaction is no... but it's a knee jerk reaction.

Do I think that people should, by and large, be able to assume that
they can treat the internet at large as a utility?  (At the T-1 and up
direct connect level, I mean)  Yeah, probably.

Does that require that consumer-level providers do some filtering...?

Yeah, probably.

Cheers,
-- jra
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