Re: [fw-wiz] The home user problem returns
From: Antonomasia (ant_at_notatla.org.uk)
Date: 09/08/05
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To: mason@schmitt.ca, firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 22:29:36 +0100
From: mason@schmitt.ca
Those sound like good ideas.
> Getting away from people oriented approaches now. I'm planning to setup a
> "leper colony" (kudos to whomever coined that term. I also hope I'm not
> offending anyone...). The idea is simply to quarantine obviously infected
> machines from the rest of our network, and preferably from other members
There should be a charge for each occurrance of this. Give it a more acceptable
name and teach the customers it's a service like towing their car out of a ditch.
> immediately upon seeing spam from a spam zombie - even if
> the zombie is attempting to relay through our smarthost
> as opposed to the usual direct-to-mx spam zombie activity.
That should be easy to detect according to Richard Clayton.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rnc1/extrusion.pdf
see also http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rnc1/incoming.pdf
And in another mail:
> Marcus and most of the rest of you, please keep preaching solid security
> principles to businesses and governments,
On a good day they pay twice as much attention as the home users.
I could make a game of writing down things that happen at work and people
guessing which ones are true.
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