NSP-SEC

[nenolod at systeminplace.net (William Pitcock)]

Hello,

Few people actually care about nsp-sec so what exactly are you getting at?

"Guillaume FORTAINE" <gfortaine at live.com> wrote:

>Misses, Misters,
>
>I would want to inform you that the security of the Internet, that is 
>discussed in the NSP-SEC mailing-list [0] by a selected group of vendors 
>(Cisco, Juniper & Arbor) [1] and operations contacts of the big ISPs [2] :
>
>
>1) applies the "Security through Obscurity" paradigm that has been 
>proven inefficient [3]. To quote [4] :
>
>"Please do not Forward, CC, or BCC this E-mail outside of the nsp-security
>community. Confidentiality is essential for effective Internet security 
>counter-measures."
>
>First question : Why was I able to find this mail on the Internet if it 
>should be kept secret ?
>
>
>2) includes [5]
>
>a) Spammers (Rodney Joffe) [6] [7]
>
>b) Freelancers (Gadi Evron) [8] [9]
>
>Second question : Do you still ask yourself why the Internet is so 
>insecure ? [10]
>
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Guillaume FORTAINE
>
>[0] http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/nsp-security
>[1] http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/SP/ServiceProviders
>[2] 
>http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.cisco.com/web/ME/exposaudi2009/assets/docs/isp_security_routing_and_switching.pdf
>[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity
>[4]
>http://lists.ausnog.net/pipermail/ausnog/2007-April/000397.html
>[5]
>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q="nsp-sec"+site:mailman.nanog.org&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&esrch=FT1
>[6] http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2008-October/004724.html
>[7] http://www.iadl.org/RodneyJoffe/rodneyjoffe.html
>[8] http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2009-November/015354.html
>[9] http://il.linkedin.com/in/gadievron
>[10] http://caislab.kaist.ac.kr/77ddos/
>
>

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