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Fighting the worms of mass destruction (Economist)Fighting the worms of mass destruction (Economist)Posted Dec 1, 2003 20:28 UTC (Mon) by sandy_pond (guest, #9734)Parent article: Fighting the worms of mass destruction (Economist)
'I'm kind of a fan of eliminating anonymity,' says Alan Nugent, the chief technologist at Novell, a software company, 'if that is the price for security.' Well then I'm kind of a fan of eliminating all confidential company information, such as in making all company records/documents/contracts public ... if that is the price for stopping fraud. This has the ring of A Modest Proposal
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Fighting the worms of mass destruction (Economist) Posted Dec 1, 2003 20:40 UTC (Mon) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link] Very good point.I've said here, and elsewhere, my opinion of this whole business. I believe that, if we are to have a free society, where people can show their dignity and preserve their right to privacy and happiness, we *must* make people who abuse those rights pay for doing so.
Fighting the worms of mass destruction (Economist) Posted Dec 1, 2003 21:29 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] The problem is, if you want e.g. spammers to be traceable, then somebody (e.g. a guy offended by your comments on his website) can fake a spam purporting to be from your IP address and trace it to you.
Fighting the worms of mass destruction (Economist) Posted Dec 1, 2003 22:41 UTC (Mon) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] IP address spoofing could be largely eliminated, if every router on the net were configured to perform a simple sanity check: don't let packets pass that have an "impossible" source address from the perspective of that router. That is, if an ISP has sold you a range of static IP addresses, its routers should drop any packets from you that claim a return address outside that range. If everyone did this, spoofing would be much more limited.
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