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Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445

  • From: Gadi Evron
  • Date: Tue Aug 16 15:08:04 2005 
Randy Bush wrote:
Surely we realize that this discussion is not concerning the oft repeated "Internet's Firewall" debate.
Its about containing a potential worm/virus outbreak. Call it a network wide quarantine.
surely you realize that this discussion is not about civil rights
and the constitution, but about combatting terrorists.
To a level, it is.

Is combating terrorists bad? No one here would say no. Then it starts getting complicated when you discuss the HOW.

Over-protecting by first saying "no" because you fear potential "how's" is silly.

Fearing the HOW itself is legitimate.

Not every block is a censor, m'kay? Some censors are good - do you want to see kiddie porn on TV? Let us not make this a freedom of speech argument and go back to network issues.

You have say, 35K clients who will get infected in the next 2 days if you don't block port 445. Are you going to block it or are you going to let them get infected and infect others?

That or I am missing something.

Gadi.