Security of National Infrastructure
Peter Corlett
abuse at cabal.org.uk
Fri Dec 29 23:02:44 UTC 2006
> Why is it that every company out there allows connections through
> their
> firewalls to their web and mail infrastructure from countries that
> they
> don't even do business in. Shouldn't it be our default to only
> allow US
> based IP addresses and then allow others as needed? The only case I
> can
> think of would be traveling folks that need to VPN or something, which
> could be permitted in the Firewall, but WHY WIDE OPEN ACCESS? We still
> seem to be in the wild west, but no-one has the b at lls to be braven and
> block the unnecessary access.
I assume you want this:
http://geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/446.html
Most "unnecessary access" I see seems to be coming from US-based IP
addresses anyway. A Great Firewall Of USA would certainly reduce the
amount of spam I get :)
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