misunderstanding scale

William Herrin bill at herrin.us
Mon Mar 24 17:13:43 UTC 2014


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Joe Greco <jgreco at ns.sol.net> wrote:
>> all successful security is about _defense in depth_.
>> If it is inaccessible, unrouted, unroutable and unaddressable then you
>> have four layers of security. If it is merely inaccessible and
>> unrouted you have two.
>
> Time to give up two layers of meaningless security for the riches offered
> by the vastness of the new address space.

Hi Joe,

You'd expect folks to give up two layers of security at exactly the
same time as they're absorbing a new network protocol with which
they're yet unskilled? Does that make sense to you from a
risk-management standpoint?

-Bill


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