Recommendation in Australia for ISPs to force user security?

2010-06-22 Thread Gadi Evron
http://www.zdnet.com.au/make-zombie-code-mandatory-govt-report-339304001.htm A government report into cybercrime has recommended that internet service providers (ISPs) force customers to use antivirus and firewall software or risk being disconnected. security Committee chair Belinda Neal

Re: Recommendation in Australia for ISPs to force user security?

2010-06-22 Thread Joel Jaeggli
not sure how they propose to enforce that, instrumentation approaches that look inside the home gateway have a non-trivial falsh positive rate and you've got a lot more hosts than ip addresses. On 06/22/2010 11:30 AM, Gadi Evron wrote:

Re: Recommendation in Australia for ISPs to force user security?

2010-06-22 Thread Scott Weeks
--- g...@linuxbox.org wrote: From: Gadi Evron g...@linuxbox.org http://www.zdnet.com.au/make-zombie-code-mandatory-govt-report-339304001.htm A government report into cybercrime has recommended that internet service providers (ISPs) force customers to use antivirus and firewall software or

RE: Recommendation in Australia for ISPs to force user security?

2010-06-22 Thread Deepak Jain
Come on, you aren't thinking gov't-enough. BASIC broadband access will be a SSH/web-only proxy with firewalling/antivirus/etc capability. That whole pesky HTTP/1.0 problem was solved a long time ago. Maybe you don't even get your own IP anymore -- and you have to access your email through

Re: Recommendation in Australia for ISPs to force user security?

2010-06-22 Thread Franck Martin
You forgot to talk about a tax on all of that too... ;) Note the Great Firewall of Australia is slowly going down in flames... Now, there are two options, fight these type of proposals (resources spent to avoid something and make political enemies) or encourage the proposal by Netherlands and

Re: Recommendation in Australia for ISPs to force user security?

2010-06-22 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Gadi Evron g...@linuxbox.org wrote: http://www.zdnet.com.au/make-zombie-code-mandatory-govt-report-339304001.htm A government report into cybercrime has recommended that internet service providers (ISPs) force customers to use antivirus and firewall software or

Re: Recommendation in Australia for ISPs to force user security?

2010-06-22 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:55:37 +1200 (FJT) Franck Martin fra...@genius.com wrote: You forgot to talk about a tax on all of that too... ;) Note the Great Firewall of Australia is slowly going down in flames... The industry has had plenty of entertainment out of the following two videos in the

Re: Recommendation in Australia for ISPs to force user security?

2010-06-22 Thread Mark Newton
On 23/06/2010, at 4:00 AM, Gadi Evron wrote: http://www.zdnet.com.au/make-zombie-code-mandatory-govt-report-339304001.htm A government report into cybercrime has recommended that internet service providers (ISPs) force customers to use antivirus and firewall software or risk being

Re: Recommendation in Australia for ISPs to force user security?

2010-06-22 Thread Jens Link
Joel Jaeggli joe...@bogus.com writes: not sure how they propose to enforce that, instrumentation approaches that look inside the home gateway have a non-trivial falsh positive rate and you've got a lot more hosts than ip addresses. Well you force your users to install some software to control