Sean wrote:
> Wouldn't that be something like expecting the highway dept. to keep
> thieves out of your house?
No, it's even better, it's like expecting the highway department to keep
certain ethnic groups out of your neighborhood because statistically when
those ethnic groups are in your neighborhood they're up to no good. Whether
or not they have a legitimate reason to be there is, of course, irrelevant.
C'mon, people, the Internet protocols aren't written so that some are good
and some are bad. They're all supposed to be for the good. Yes, some
things are easily abused, some things implemented poorly, etc, etc. But
that is NOT worth restricting our freedom. What if I want to connect to the
print server in my office via NetBIOS so I can print out my reports (I don't
have a printer at home)? It's not _necessary_ that I do that, I could
email, I could fax, but who is anyone to tell me that I'm not allowed to
leverage the power of the Internet to work more effectively?
I repeat what I said a few messages ago: it makes much more sense to simply
have a little check box that, when selected, does all the standard things
one now has to do manually to secure an interface (disable File and Print
Sharing, unbinding WINS, etc). And though I was picking on Windows, the
same applies to Macs and (to a lesser extent, I think, just because of the
user demographics) *nix boxes. For most home users this *would* provide
adequate security *without* compromising our freedom, and I can't imagine it
would be very difficult to implement.
-Fuzz
>
>
> On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Kevin Johnston wrote:
>
> > I agree with you. Time Warner (RoadRunner cable modems) told me there
is
> > absolutely NO security between customers and the Internet. You are ON
the
> > Internet and security is the customer's problem, not theirs. They would
do
> > nothing to help me. I was told this by multiple technicians at Time
Warner.
> > Since I installed Nukenabber, I have noticed attacks on my home PC from
a
> > wide variety of states AND countries. ISPs need to get serious about
> > security.
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