Re: Good, bad or indifferent?

[phester <funsec () armorfirewall com>]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Dave Dennis wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Thomas Raef wrote:
>
> > Right. Is this sounding like "big-brother"?
>
> To me not in the least.  Its sounding like finally at long last some sort of end
> to the wild west where any idiot can keep shooting his attacks anywhere he wants
> without accountability for his actions.
>
> But of course, thats not the only point of view, and many will agree it is big
> brotherism.
>
> Is it more important to allow open access to all, regardless of their malicious
> (unwitting, but come on) actions ?

"Malicious" is a state of mind. I haven't seen traffic analysis tools that 
can read minds.

Are you advocating that my providers should shut off my connection every 
time I pen-test one of my other servers?

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