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A defensive response would be to inform major vendors of our own infrastructure (i.e. Microsoft, Cisco) of the gaping holes in their systems, instead of leaving
by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
A defensive response would be to inform major vendors of our own infrastructure (i.e. Microsoft, Cisco) of the gaping holes in their systems, instead of leaving them open for the world to attack.
- killjoywashere 9y agoI can name at least one netsec guy who attributes his entire team's existence to the NSA calling his employer and doing exactly that.
- sillysaurus3 9y agoRight. It's a false dichotomy that the NSA doesn't do that and needs to disarm itself. There's a happy middle ground where people don't attack us because they're worried about our retaliation and we also improve our own defenses.
- wu-ikkyu 9y agoSounds like that netsec guy's team serves military customers then?
- killjoywashere 9y agoNo, they do design work for consumer products. But good job reading my prior comments :)
- wu-ikkyu 9y agoWhat type of consumer products? And I'm not sure what comments you're referring to.