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List:       nanog
Subject:    Re: Security of National Infrastructure
From:       "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-12-30 10:16:51
Message-ID: a2b2d0480612300216o3c0fa831x1434c2100000c364 () mail ! gmail ! com
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And then I can refuse to read anything that comes from the US. After all,
the pharma spam is clearly targeted on US residents. But what about all the
Alice.it/Telecom Italia spam? Killfile the whole country, clearly. And the
Chinese porno spam? And the Russian hackers?

I remember there used to be something called the Internet..

On 12/30/06, Chris L. Morrow <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Randy Bush wrote:
> > > Why is it that every company out there allows connections through
> their
> > > firewalls to their web and mail infrastructure from countries that
> they
> > > don't even do business in. Shouldn't it be our default to only allow
> US
> > > based IP addresses and then allow others as needed? The only case I
> can
> > > think of would be traveling folks that need to VPN or something, which
> > > could be permitted in the Firewall, but WHY WIDE OPEN ACCESS? We still
> > > seem to be in the wild west, but no-one has the b@lls to be braven and
> > > block the unnecessary access.
> >
> > maybe because those godless communist sexually deviant vicious perverts
> > out there in the rest of the world are damned hard to differentiate from
> > the sexually deviant vicious perverts we have in our government?
> >
> > and there money is still good.  you may want to look at the balance of
> > trade and worry about the opposite flow.
>
> I think the better answer is: "your network your choices, my network my
> choices"
>

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And then I can refuse to read anything that comes from the US. After all, the pharma \
spam is clearly targeted on US residents. But what about all the <a \
href="http://Alice.it/Telecom">Alice.it/Telecom</a> Italia spam? Killfile the whole \
country, clearly. And the Chinese porno spam? And the Russian hackers?  <br><br>I \
remember there used to be something called the Internet..<br><br><div><span \
class="gmail_quote">On 12/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris L. Morrow</b> \
&lt;<a href="mailto:christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com"> \
christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt \
0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Randy Bush wrote: <br>&gt; \
&gt; Why is it that every company out there allows connections through their<br>&gt; \
&gt; firewalls to their web and mail infrastructure from countries that they<br>&gt; \
&gt; don&#39;t even do business in. Shouldn&#39;t it be our default to only allow US \
<br>&gt; &gt; based IP addresses and then allow others as needed? The only case I \
can<br>&gt; &gt; think of would be traveling folks that need to VPN or something, \
which<br>&gt; &gt; could be permitted in the Firewall, but WHY WIDE OPEN ACCESS? We \
still <br>&gt; &gt; seem to be in the wild west, but no-one has the b@lls to be \
braven and<br>&gt; &gt; block the unnecessary access.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; maybe because \
those godless communist sexually deviant vicious perverts<br>&gt; out there in the \
rest of the world are damned hard to differentiate from <br>&gt; the sexually deviant \
vicious perverts we have in our government?<br>&gt;<br>&gt; and there money is still \
good.&nbsp;&nbsp;you may want to look at the balance of<br>&gt; trade and worry about \
the opposite flow.<br><br>I think the better answer is: &quot;your network your \
choices, my network my <br>choices&quot;<br></blockquote></div><br>



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