On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, William Joynt wrote:
>
> Ahh, now I see. So if I have a store, and I have a door behind the counter,
> I shouldn't object if a customer jumps the counter and tries to go in the
> door? After all, I put the door there, obviously I meant it to be used.
Ah, I see said the blind man, when clearly he didn't.
The door in the analogy was the FRONT door, not the inside doors, which
corresponds precisely to a port on a server, which, lets not forget, is
directly connected to the PUBLIC internet. Each port is like a little
front door into your store.
Cars, on the other hand, are not intended to be used by the PUBLIC. They
are not businesses which are open to the PUBLIC. They are PRIVATE
property.
> The idea that every service and every server on the Internet serves as
> implicit permission for any public use is ludicrous. Might as well say if
> you park you car on the street, you implicitly give the public permission to
> try your doors, and if you leave them unlocked, permission to rummage around
> in your car.
Your statement is absurd. The ENTIRE PURPOSE of putting a server on the
internet is so that the PUBLIC, or at least some subset of it, can connect
to it. If you don't want the PUBLIC connecting to it, don't put it on the
PUBLIC internet.
Period.
Derek D. Martin | UNIX System Administrator
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