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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 08:03:57AM -0500, Olsen, Jason wrote: > > You must not have used it much in those 20 years. I can > > definitely say worms, trojans, spam, phishing, ddos, and > > other attacks is up several orders of magnitude in those 20 > > years. > > The userbase has also increased by several orders of magnitude beyond > that. > > 1% "bad" traffic at 100 users: 1 > 1% "bad" traffic at 1,000,000 users: 10,000 And this raises an absolutely excellent stand-alone point that seems to me to be something that netops types should be keeping uppermost in their minds: When a problem gets big enough, it's a *different* problem, not just a bigger problem. An analogy to this (actually, a result of it) is the difference between the office policies in a 5-person company and a 500-person one, or a town of 10,000 and a city of 400,000. This seems to bear on almost everything I've seen said in this thread (which is the award winner for the year so far...) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me |