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Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

  • From: Henry Linneweh
  • Date: Tue Oct 28 18:26:00 2003

I think if program design criterion would change, to coding secure applications then
the problem would be reduced dramatically
 
-Henry

Petri Helenius <[email protected]> wrote:

Matthew Kaufman wrote:

>End-to-end requires that people writing the software at the end learn about
>buffer overruns (and other data-driven access violations) or program using
>tools that prevent such things. It is otherwise an excellent idea.
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There is supposedly some magic going into this in the next "Service
Pack" of a mentioned
major exploding Pinto. Not sure if it�s just flipping the joke of
firewall on by default or something
more comprehensive/destructive like non-executable stack. Or a
completely new invention like
bug free code :-)

>Unfortunately, the day that someone decided their poorly-designed machine
>and operating system would be safer sitting behind a "firewall" pretty much
>marked the end of universal end-to-end connectivity, and I don't see it
>coming back for a long long time. Probably not on this Internet. IPv6 or
>not.
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Last I checked most "firewall"s don�t make these machines safe, it might
make them safer,
so only two out of three malwares hit them. Does not really help too much.

>Combine that with ISP pricing models (helped by registry policy) that
>encourage <=1 IP address per household, and the subsequent boom in NAT
>boxes, and the fate is probably sealed.
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Here I�ve observed opposite trend, most ISP�s are getting rid of NATting
because it�s failure
prone and expensive to implement and keep running.

Pete