Hi Pascal, I believe if we limited internet access to only one port, got all our services running on this port, we would still have lots of worms and viruses, and the threat would remain the same. The cause is not the communication channel, but the endpoints.
Mickey At 10:19 16-10-03, Pascal Gloor wrote: -----Start of Original Message----- >Hi folks, > >Considering those facts: > > - the growing number of worms and any other form of harmfull virus. > - that IP is a powerfull tool. > - the growing bandwidth usable for end-users. > - the need for business customers to have stable and reliable internet >access. > >Today we're perhaps offering our customer a too powerfull tool. Most (lets >say 80 or 90%) of our "mass" customers only use smtp/pop3/imap/http/https. > >Is it still appropriate to give to "mass" customers ability to generate any >kind of communication using IP? >What about blocking TCP_SYN _TO_ dial/adsl (non-business) customers? >Should we even think about blocking some kind of outgoing traffic? > >I'm not asking this on a technical point of view, but more on a >philosophical point of view. > >Ideas? > > >Pascal -----End of Original Message----- -- Mickey Coggins Tel: +41-79-210-3762 Fax: +41-86-079-210-3762 ---------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/
