Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks

["A. Pishdadi" <apishdadi () gmail com>]

I hear enough politics on social media and tv , please leave it off of this
list.

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 10:37 PM Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks () vt edu>
wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:08:05 -0600, "Keith Medcalf" said:
>
> > I don't know but we just issued travel restrictions to the United States
> > as it is now a Hot Spot for the unrestricted spread of the coronavirus
> > which causes COVID-19.
>
> Hopefully they're more sensible restrictions than the US policy that
> prohibits
> travel from most of Europe except the UK... but only for foreigners.  If
> you're
> a US citizen, you're still perfectly welcome to go to Italy and come home
> with
> a few extra microbes to pass around a week after you return.
>
> The word for anybody who designs a network firewall with that sort of
> logic is
> "pwned".  Just sayin'.
>
> (Fortunately, I'm in a position to hide in my apartment and only emerge for
> grocery shopping at 2AM until things wind down... Hope everybody else has a
> good contingency plan)