Report: IP networks easy prey for cyberattackers

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Good idea, BUT!

Computers used to be only run and managed by people schooled in their operation. Thanks to Bill and the rest, we have a home appliance. This has brought us great bang-for-the-buck for everyone. This also opens a can of worms, as you so elegantly discuss.

If we are going to keep these uninformed/nontechnical peoples PC's from destroying our world of the internet, the safeguards being promoted must change. The attitude of the professional internet community must also change it's emphasis.

Protection-per-PC is costly to the public as a whole. It is great for those selling single PC protection, and I am sure that they are enjoying their profits, but it is NOT solving the problem.

Be it Viruses, or spam, or phishing, to get every user out there to protect himself is not cost-effective, and it will never be done, because you only need a few new systems, without protection, to hurt our medium seriously.

There are rules set out for those that set themselves up as ISP, or Internet Service Providers? who give us all access to the Internet. Many of them do a wonderful job of going the extra mile to protect their users by blocking SOME destructive processes, but NONE of them protect the internet from their customers. It would make sense for viruses, spam and phishing to be blocked going out TO the internet as a method that would do the most good, and also help identify WHO is doing it, so that further action could be taken.

One ISP can stop millions of of these transactions, instead of trying to vaccinate all the rest of us out there. Getting back to my point... When is ICANN or whoever-is-in-charge, going to require these people to comply with the basic responsibilities of being an ISP. They do DNS and yet do not honour the TTL instructions, they have no "required" contact addresses, such as abuse@wherever.net and postmaster@wherever.com as is stated in the "rules". Many are not even allowing us to ping their nodes to insure that our packets can traverse their nodes. If they started getting blocked by other responsible ISP's, then their customers would stop using their services, and find someone else to give their money to.

Computers used to be only run and managed by people schooled in their operation. Thanks to Bill and the rest, we have a home appliance. This has brought us great bang-for-the-buck for everyone. This also opens a can of worms, as you so elegantly discuss.

If we are going to keep these uninformed/nontechnical peoples PC's from destroying our world of the internet, the safeguards being promoted must change. The attitude of the professional internet community must also change it's emphasis.

Protection-per-PC is costly to the public as a whole. It is great for those selling single PC protection, and I am sure that they are enjoying their profits, but it is NOT solving the problem.

Be it Viruses, or spam, or phishing, to get every user out there to protect himself is not cost-effective, and it will never be done, because you only need a few new systems, without protection, to hurt our medium seriously.

There are rules set out for those that set themselves up as ISP, or Internet Service Providers? who give us all access to the Internet. Many of them do a wonderful job of going the extra mile to protect their users by blocking SOME destructive processes, but NONE of them protect the internet from their customers. It would make sense for viruses, spam and phishing to be blocked going out TO the internet as a method that would do the most good, and also help identify WHO is doing it, so that further action could be taken.

One ISP can stop millions of of these transactions, instead of trying to vaccinate all the rest of us out there. Getting back to my point... When is ICANN or whoever-is-in-charge, going to require these people to comply with the basic responsibilities of being an ISP. They do DNS and yet do not honour the TTL instructions, they have no "required" contact addresses, such as abuse@wherever.net and postmaster@wherever.com as is stated in the "rules". Many are not even allowing us to ping their nodes to insure that our packets can traverse their nodes. If they started getting blocked by other responsible ISP's, then their customers would stop using their services, and find someone else to give their money to.

The ISP's must step up to the plate and put these software programs in the node to their hundreds/thousands of users, instead of requiring "papa newbie" to learn that he should do anything at all. Because it only takes a few that won't to gum up the whole works. The ISP's must step up to the plate and put these software programs in the node to their hundreds/thousands of users, instead of requiring "papa newbie" to learn that he should do anything at all. Because it only takes a few that won't, to gum up the whole works.

Posted by: jrbeaman   Posted on: 01/16/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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