On Sep 4, 2008, at 1:14 PM, james wrote:
On Sep 4, 2008, at 7:24 AM, James Jun wrote:
Indeed... In today's internet, protecting your own box (cp-policer/ control plane filtering) is far more important IMO than implementing BCP38 when much of attack traffic comes from legitimate IP sources anyway (see botnets).
I'm sorry, but nonsense statements such as these burn the blood. Sure, yes, protecting yourself is so much more important than protecting anyone else.
Anyone else want to stand up and join the "I am an asshole" club?
OK, I'm an asshole. I'm sure BCP38 can prove to be useful, but I'll never drop my shields.
I am pretty certain James was not suggesting you "drop your shields". My understanding is he thinks anyone who -only- protects their own router CPUs, but lets random packets leave their network with fake source addresses for other networks is an ass hole (shields up or not). Assuming that is what he meant, I agree with him. Now, would you care to reiterate your ass-hole-ness and admit to 10s of 1000s of your closest friends that you let your users attack them (and me!) in undetectable ways, make things like the Kaminsky DNS vulnerability possible, etc.? -- TTFN, patrick