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> In the enterprise space, if you mention globally reachable address space, the discussion tends to end pretty fast because “its not secure”. Topic drift, but
by jjav 6mo ago
> In the enterprise space, if you mention globally reachable address space, the discussion tends to end pretty fast because “its not secure”.
Topic drift, but for younger people who didn't live it, that's how it used to be!
For most of the 90s my workstation in the office (at several employers) was directly on the Internet. There were no firewalls, no filtering of any kind. I ran my email server on my desktop workstation to receive all emails, both from "internal" (but there was no "internal" really, since every host was on the Internet) people and anyone in the world. I ran my web server on that same workstation, accessible to the whole Internet.
That was the norm, the Internet was completely peer to peer. Good times.
- icedchai 6mo agoSame! I even had my home network on a public /24.
- ExoticPearTree 6mo agoThe good ol’ days. Same. Had a public IP on my computer, could SSH into it to read my mail.
- jjav 6mo agoThat I still do, but now it goes through a firewall, a bastion host and a second different firewall.
- vrighter 6mo agoi still do this today!
- CodesInChaos 6mo agoYou run a mail server on a residential IP? I thought that pretty much guarantees non delivery nowadays?
- thbb123 6mo agoPretty much all tech companies and universities had a drop-in ftp server where anyone could, anonymously, put and retrieve files. It was a collective 'pastebin' useful to exchange information with clients and partners. On the ftp server of the company I worked for, someone had put a cracked copy of our software for their colleagues to use.
- otabdeveloper4 6mo ago> Good times. Hope you're sarcastic, because they really weren't. It was a shitshow for decades until we figured out just a bit of a clue about security practices.