RE: Intrusions
Brad Powell (bpowell@topsun.West.Sun.COM)
Thu, 1 Feb 1996 08:40:10 -0800
Paul writes:
>From pgs@tisny.com Wed Jan 31 15:06:34 1996
>From: "Paul G. Seldes" <pgs@tisny.com>
>To: "'Brad Powell'" <bpowell@topsun.West.Sun.COM>,
> "ids@uow.edu.au"
>Subject: RE: Intrusions
>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 17:58:59 -0500
>
>Sorry. But you can't disagree with the analogy. I have clients who DO feel th>at way. I would not suggest following that approach for exactly the reasons th>at you suggest. But less technically literate businesses do follow that. And >that is part o>f the reason that there is such a general perception the Internet> is lawlesss and prone to such attacks.
If you can then give me a listing of these clients, I'll go ahead
and write a filter to block *everything* coming from them then.
If they are not going to be good network citizens, then I have
no recourse except to protect myself against them.
Yes today Internet is lawless today, ( Reference Spaf's "Circle the Wagons"
or my earlier papers about "Internet Pioneering") and its just this
sort of mentality of your clients that keeps it so.
I'm not blaming you Paul, your just stating the facts, so don't take this as
a flame. I'm just trying to protect *my* clients whom I'm obligated to
protect from intrusion. If there are buisness's out there that tolerate
intrusions fine, but (imnsho) they will not survive long on Internet.
Call it Darwinism, or weeding out the weak if you like, in the mean time
I'll make sure and block them from doing me any damage. I've got more
important work (to me) to do than chase down break-ins to sites that
don't give a damn about the rest of the world.
Brad