Come on, you aren't thinking gov't-enough. "BASIC" broadband access will be a SSH/web-only proxy with firewalling/antivirus/etc capability. That whole pesky HTTP/1.0 problem was solved a long time ago. Maybe you don't even get your own IP anymore -- and you have to access your email through their web portal too. This also qualifies you as net-neutral in that everyone gets the same poor service. Only content providers that sign an agreement to be free of virii and malware (with an appropriate "inspection/sanitization" charge will be let through... e.g. Netflix or whomever) -- this way, you aren't being made to differentiate between bits, you are being made to ensure national security. "BUSINESS" broadband access might give you a real IP, allow you to torrent, but you sign a piece of paper that authorizes them to charge you if you get infected, or better yet, a maintenance plan of a $24.95/month on top of your service to make sure you don't get infected with a remotely managed firewall/router or whatever will meet the definition of the regulation. This can be solved so fast it'll make your head spin. Build a big proxy "cloud", send everyone 60 days notice once the regulation comes in effect, on day 61 throw the switch. Day 62, collect orders for the upgraded service. *PROFIT* My only shock is that Washington isn't leading Canberra on this, with an even faster timeline than the one above. Deepak
-----Original Message----- From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:joelja@bogus.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 2:58 PM To: Gadi Evron Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Recommendation in Australia for ISPs to force user security?
not sure how they propose to enforce that, instrumentation approaches that look inside the home gateway have a non-trivial falsh positive rate and you've got a lot more hosts than ip addresses.
On 06/22/2010 11:30 AM, Gadi Evron wrote:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/make-zombie-code-mandatory-govt-report- 339304001.htm
"A government report into cybercrime has recommended that internet service providers (ISPs) force customers to use antivirus and firewall software or risk being disconnected. security
Committee chair Belinda Neal said in her introduction to the 262-page report titled "Hackers, Fraudsters and Botnets: Tackling the Problem of Cyber Crime" that due to the exponential growth of malware and other forms of cybercrime in recent years, "the expectation that end users should or can bear the sole responsibility for their own personal online security is no longer a tenable proposition".
"We need to apply the same energy and commitment given to national security and the protection of critical infrastructure to the cybercrime threats that impact on society more generally," she said."