Originally it was a few trusted nodes and the only real security was physical, meaning access to a terminal. ARPA/DARPAnet security guards certainly would not let just anyone access a terminal.
Thanks, Steve Totaro On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Trixter aka Bret McDanel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 22:46 -0400, Steve Totaro wrote: >> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Trixter aka Bret McDanel >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > and that may be the bigger problem. The phone network was never >> > designed to allow anyone and everyone act like a phone network. They >> > made promises they can only keep when a few "trusted" companies are able >> > to control what data goes where. The emergence of SS7 firewalls shows >> > that they dont trust all the data that may be trafficed over the >> > network, a network that was also never designed to have but a few >> > "trusted" people on it. >> > >> >> The same can be said with the internet. > > > I disagree, I think the internet was designed for more than just a few > trusted nodes on it. > -- > Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel > Belfast +44 28 9099 6461 US +1 516 687 5200 > http://www.trxtel.com the phone company that pays you! > Originally it was a few trusted nodes and the only real security was physical, meaning access to a terminal. ARPA/DARPAnet security guards or military police certainly would not let just anyone access a terminal. It was designed for the military/government to be able to communicate after a nuclear (or similar) strike by self healing with routing around the outage. That was the original idea but it became more than that after the potential of a public WWW was recognized, as many Universities started getting connected, at which point, many of the government systems were taken offline. Why? Lack of security in the implementation itself. Thanks, Steve Totaro _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
