[AusNOG] (bad) cyber security and ideas coming out of thewoodwork?!

[Tom Wright]

On 24/06/2010, at 4:58 PM, Zane Jarvis wrote:

Disconnect?  I hope not, but a wall garden concept is a great idea.  I
understand it will make more work and cost more for the ISPs. But the infected
hosts do have a negative impact on your network don't they?

Not really.

These are just regular users with a reasonably small outbound bandwidth.

Fundamentally, it should not be the responsibility of the ISP to go concerning
themselves with a customer's traffic.

So what if user's computers are infected?  Individual's need to be responsible
for that, and ISP's need to not care.

The Internet has operated perfectly fine for decades without such controls in place.

It'd be a real pain in the ass for, say, your state's water supplier if the government
legislated for all houses to have energy efficient shower heads, and then made
it their problem to police their mandatory use.

In the rare cases where an ISP's infrastructure is a target of their own customer's
poorly configured/secured network, then that can be dealt with on a case by
case basis, and for sure, it's in their interests to help the customer resolve
the issue.

Put it this way - do you really want to subsidise the cleansing of other people's
networks?


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Tom Wright
Internode Network Operations
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