> When at least those measures were taken, the wide availability of > unfiltered access to hackers (botnets, cheap hosting) would be > reduced.
Sure, but they aren't the problem; it's the crackers and the skr1pt k1ddiez (distinguished from the crackers by having even less skill and understanding) who are the problem. (Mostly. There are a very few hackers who have crossed the fence and become the worst of the crackers. But it's no more fair to tar all hackers with their brush than it is to, say, condemn all Europeans because a few of them are modern-day slave-runners.) Of course, this is not a reason to not implement egress filtering. Just that calling it reducing non-egress-filtered access availability to hackers makes about as much sense as calling it reducing non-egress-filtered access availability to redheads: it implies blame where it doesn't belong. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
