13 Jun
2004
13 Jun
'04
12:41 a.m.
At 4:21 AM +0000 6/13/04, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
We have methods of dealing with these abuse problems today, unfortanately as Paul Vixie often points out there are business reasons why these problems persist. Often the 'business' reason isn't the tin-foil-hat-brigade's reason so much as 'we can't afford to keep these abuse folks around since they don't make money for the company'.
I'll argue that we have don't effective methods of dealing with this today, and it's not the lack of abuse desk people as much as the philosophy of closing barn doors after the fact. The idea that we can leave everything wide open for automated exploit tools, and then clean up afterwards manually with labor-intensive efforts is fundamentally flawed. /John