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Re: Security of National Infrastructure
From: "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:16:51 +0000
And then I can refuse to read anything that comes from the US. After all, the pharma spam is clearly targeted on US residents. But what about all the Alice.it/Telecom Italia spam? Killfile the whole country, clearly. And the Chinese porno spam? And the Russian hackers? I remember there used to be something called the Internet.. On 12/30/06, Chris L. Morrow <christopher.morrow () verizonbusiness com> wrote:
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Randy Bush wrote: > > Why is it that every company out there allows connections through their > > firewalls to their web and mail infrastructure from countries that they > > don't even do business in. Shouldn't it be our default to only allow US > > based IP addresses and then allow others as needed? The only case I can > > think of would be traveling folks that need to VPN or something, which > > could be permitted in the Firewall, but WHY WIDE OPEN ACCESS? We still > > seem to be in the wild west, but no-one has the b@lls to be braven and > > block the unnecessary access. > > maybe because those godless communist sexually deviant vicious perverts > out there in the rest of the world are damned hard to differentiate from > the sexually deviant vicious perverts we have in our government? > > and there money is still good. you may want to look at the balance of > trade and worry about the opposite flow. I think the better answer is: "your network your choices, my network my choices"
Current thread:
- Security of National Infrastructure The Shadow (Dec 29)
- Re: Security of National Infrastructure Randy Bush (Dec 29)
- Re: Security of National Infrastructure Jerry Pasker (Dec 29)
- Re: Security of National Infrastructure Petri Helenius (Dec 29)
- Re: Security of National Infrastructure Chris L. Morrow (Dec 29)
- Re: Security of National Infrastructure Alexander Harrowell (Dec 30)
- Re: Security of National Infrastructure Jerry Pasker (Dec 29)
- Re: Security of National Infrastructure Joseph S D Yao (Dec 29)
- Re: Security of National Infrastructure Kevin Day (Dec 29)
- Re: Security of National Infrastructure Peter Corlett (Dec 29)
- Re: Security of National Infrastructure Mark Foster (Dec 29)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Security of National Infrastructure Scott Weeks (Dec 29)
- Re: Security of National Infrastructure Randy Bush (Dec 29)