13 Sep
2005
13 Sep
'05
5:20 a.m.
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:47:00 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com> writes:
On 12-sep-2005, at 2:47, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
Amazingly enough, the *single* biggest problem in trying to get Joe Sixpack to secure their systems is "But I don't have anything they'd be interested in..."
Security isn't an end in itself. For instance, I don't care enough about people using up my paper and ink to secure my print server against remote printing.
When the number of open print servers exceeds a threshold, I predict that 'innovative marketers' will start using zombied toasters to send advertisements to all open print servers they can find. And at that point, security matters very much. Scott