N O Y B
St. John 3.16
join:2005-12-15
Forest Grove, OR
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Re: Security Absurdity: A long-overdue wake up call
Yes, one should practice defensive driving so to speak. But there is still the other half of the equation which is the ISP should not knowingly allow illegal use of their network.
Moving off the road thing.
Suppose a corporation knowingly permits the use of their resources for illegal activity and does nothing meaningfully significant to prevent such activity, should they not be held responsible for resulting damages?
ISPs currently do knowingly permit the use of their resources (their privately owned and operated network) for illegal activity and in many cases could put automated systems in place to detect, block and shutdown offending customer connections. |
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devicenull
Premium
join:2002-12-01
Clifton, NJ
| You have to be very careful automatically shutting down clients. What if I want to run a Nessus or Nmap scan on a server I own? With any type of automated system, you run the risk of it flagging that and taking action.. Server could have many IP addresses with different services on each.. |
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Kiwi
Premium
join:2003-05-26
USA
 ·Comcast
 ·Aristotle Internet
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said by N O Y B  :Suppose a corporation knowingly permits the use of their resources for illegal activity and does nothing meaningfully significant to prevent such activity, should they not be held responsible for resulting damages? ISPs currently do knowingly permit the use of their resources (their privately owned and operated network) for illegal activity and in many cases could put automated systems in place to detect, block and shutdown offending customer connections. That's another and entirely separate issue, Network Administrators are accountable for knowing their job. Permissions and Admin rights are controlled, or should be. I think you are not entirely realistic in what an Admin does or is, in a corporate environment.
An ISP provides access to the net, they are not the Police.
Most users could do with censorship @ least @ some level, even on their own PC! Too many really stupid click happy idiots running around, infecting everyone with AIDS -Artificial & Indecent Decisions Serviced 
Some people should simply be licensed, before they are allowed to access the net. But it's still not an ISP issue.
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N O Y B
St. John 3.16
join:2005-12-15
Forest Grove, OR
| reply to devicenull
said by devicenull :You have to be very careful automatically shutting down clients. What if I want to run a Nessus or Nmap scan on a server I own? With any type of automated system, you run the risk of it flagging that and taking action.. Server could have many IP addresses with different services on each.. And why would it ever need to repeatedly pound on mine or anyone’s firewall with unsolicited traffic? |
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N O Y B
St. John 3.16
join:2005-12-15
Forest Grove, OR
| reply to Kiwi
I didn’t say anything about network administrators. I said corporations.
I didn’t say ISP are the police. But neither am I, but I and they as well can be held accountable for negligence, i.e. knowingly permitting someone to use their resources (network) in pursuit of illegal activity. |
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