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Sounds like they currently run their network in "trusted" mode. They need to start treating all clients as potentially rogue and malicious. The internet at la
by kogir 16y ago
Sounds like they currently run their network in "trusted" mode. They need to start treating all clients as potentially rogue and malicious.
The internet at large suffered similarly when it grew to general use and is now better for it on many levels.
- jrockway 16y agoAnd the areas that refused to change are the most flaky parts of the infrastructure. No authentication of the "From" field in email? Well look at all that spam. No 3-way handshake for DNS? Well look at all that DNS cache poisoning. The problem is that once the insecure infrastructure is "good enough", nobody adopts the improvements. See also: NAT vs. IPv6.