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Re: de-peering for security sake


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 21:48:38 -0500

On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 11:09:27 -0800, Owen DeLong said:

Making the owner of the host responsible for an attack -personally-
responsible would require every grandma & 6 year old to have insurance before
buying a laptop or Xbox. And would bankrupt your favorite startup no matter how
smart & competent the first time a zero-day caught them by surprise.

Agreed… I think, instead, that the commercial purveyors of vulnerable software
should be held liable.

And this is another one that needs *really* careful definitions.

How much time does Redhat get to patch a bug in (say) OpenSSH or the kernel
or any other package from upstream, before you want to hold them liable?

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