The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat?

Thu Jan 19 20:48:51 UTC 2006

Jerry Pasker wrote:
> 
> The point is:  What's more damaging?  Being open with the maps to 
> EVERYONE can see where the problem areas are so they can design around 
> them? (or chose not to) or pulling the maps, and reports, and sticking 
> our heads in the sand, and hoping that security through obscurity works.

Let's look at this from another point of view:  Should we remove all
keylocks from backhoes so that everyone can have access to them?  :-)

I'm all for openness, but sometimes some things only need to be accessed
and used by the professionals that need those things.  I fully trust 
that the big network operators, the ones that really really do need this 
data, have all the info they need to plan their network expansions, etc. 
I don't need to see this data, even though I might want to.

-Jim P.