Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

Sun May 1 16:08:37 UTC 2005

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:06:51AM -0400, Greg Boehnlein wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> > I've been there -- I know how I feel about it -- but I'd love
> > to know how ISP operations folk feel about this.
> 
> Of course Bruce Schneider is going to allocate ISP's handling security so 
> he can sell them more of his crappy Counterpane products. I find it 
> offensive that Mr. Schneider would categorize ISPs as lazy and 
> unresponsible, and it does nothing but encourage me to sell anything BUT 
> Counterpane to my customers.

He doesn't, as noted, sell much by way of "products"... and please
spell his name correctly.

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