Re: Your neighbor's security is critical to your security

[Steve Kudlak <chromazine () sbcglobal net>]

Trying to be gentle here, what are your proposed fixes other than a 
homey proverb and a few
examples.  I certainly don't want a certrally controlled internet with 
someone looking over it.
You could try to convince  people to people they should be careful on 
what they click. There are
lots of things on the net that say  "if you are irritated about say for 
example, the Patriot Act, click
here and we will send a post card to your representative or senator. Now 
the effect this had was
that most senators began to ignore their email. So this has happened in 
the lowly world of a paper
mail being sent. This by the way is my grumble about "grassroots 
movements" fail because they often
to convince their representatives that the ideas they hold have sense 
rather than being a large amount
of worked up people. Of course my counter argument has the other side 
does the same thing of working
people up and trying to get them to accept a bunch of politicies that 
are not based on reality.

That is why I pretty much expect people to present a reasonable and 
concrete plan against what
they are worried about, and that they establish what they are worried 
about is a reasonable thing
to be worried about. I dount you can convince 2% of the Internet to 
click something to bother
someone iof they realize it could be done to them too.The question is 
what you hope are the proper
steps to defend against a credible set of threats.

I really think there are threats out there but that much of the whole 
"White Hat", "Black Hat" and if you
wiill "Yellow Hat" or "Red Hat" Community is about as real as Dungeons 
and Dragons games that
spawned the terms. This whole idea of the millions and millions of 
compromised machines maybe a
bit exaggerrated. I am sure somc set of bored bright teens could have a 
bit of fun trying to take down sbcglobal for fun by
pinging it  or something elese to prove their mispelling of "hacker" 
prowess. to yours truly but as far as I am concerned
vague fears are vague fears until someone actually nails it down. 
Elsewise it gets to be like all these "Sleeper
Cells" we are supposed to be worried about so we will sell all our 
rights down the river.

I am sure encouraging people to be a little more cautious and all that 
is a good thing. PLease however
try to provide some real facts to back up your points.

Have Fun,
Sends Steve




Babak Pasdar wrote:

> Here is a recent blog entry on why your neighbor's security is important
> to your organization's security.
>
>
> When I was a child, my mother would share with me a proverb about a
> woman who lived in a large village. This woman was, using today's terms,
> a clean freak. She would clean her house day and night, inside and out,
> but it still would not be clean. So she went to the village elder and
> asked what she could do so that her house would finally be clean.
>
> The elder responded, if you want your house to be clean, you should talk
> to your neighbors and make sure their homes are clean. This was
> surprising to the woman who asked why her neighbor's cleanliness would
> affect her?
>
> The elder shared that if the area around her house is clean then there
> will be less dirt that can find it's way into her house.
>
> The same holds true with technology security. So many organizations are
> extremely engaged in making their security the best it can be. Despite
> any efforts, what would happen if only 2% of the Internet decided to
> Ping your site or systems at the same time. Regardless of the capacity
> you boast and the big boxes in your environment, you would go down for
> that moment. 
>
> Read the rest here...
> http://dsb.igxglobal.com/plugins/content/content.php?content.39
>
>
> Babak Pasdar
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