> Equally appalling (to me, at least) has been the sharp decline in the > sense of responsibility among network and system operators. [...]
> It is this utter failure of responsibility, this profound negligence, > that I think is every bit as much a threat as The Bad Guys. [...] I entirely agree. It's why I (mostly) got out of abuse-fighting: the rot goes, as far as I can tell, clear to the top, and until the mismatch between authority and responsibility - imposed responsibility, that is, since (as you point out) self-assumed responsibility has failed to carry over through the September that never ended and its associated changes - is fixed, everything else is a holding action at best. I am not a crusader, much less a Quixotic crusader, and do not have the energy and stress tolerance to sink into a losing holding action. I now fear that it will take the collapse of the current Internet governance structure to do any good; fixing it is looking less and less likely - less likely for every day that passes with total apparent inaction (total lack of effect, that is, as far as I can see) by the current top of the pyramid. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
