2.6-test10 and ECN

James Ralston qralston+ml.redhat-fedora at andrew.cmu.edu
Fri Dec 5 00:19:17 UTC 2003


On 2003-11-26 at 10:29:53+0100 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv at redhat.com> wrote:
> the sysadmins of those [broken] sites need to upgrade their firmware
> to be compliant with internet standards

Unfortunately, there's only one thing that can make that happen
universally, and it hasn't happened yet.  :(

Until then, most sites that are stupid enough to implement broken
firewalls in the first place will smugly ignore anyone who tries to
tell them that their firewalls are broken, thinking that they've just
deflected a "security hack" by someone trying to convince them to "let
their guard down".  Been there; done that.

-- 
James Ralston, Information Technology
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA





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