On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 10:31:57PM +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:
On 23/03/2014 21:02, Mark Andrews wrote:
Actually all you have stated in that printer vendors need to clean up their act and not that one shouldn't expect to be able to expose a printer to the world. It isn't hard to do this correctly.
perish the thought - and I look forward to the day that vendors write secure software which is impregnable to all vulnerabilities past and present. When that happens, I'll cast away my default deny configurations and advise other people to do the same.
Until then, though, I hope you understand why I suggest that default deny is no less sensible a precaution than locking the front door in a busy city.
Nick
Hum.. perhaps a poor analogy. Tokyo is a busy city, yet I know quite a few people who don;t lock their doors there. Redondo Beach is quite a bit less busy, but -everyone- locks their doors and anything else of value. Its the culture of ethics of the individiual, not the density of individuals. /bill