da...@lang.hm wrote: > far more open than the person dropping the restrictions realizes. You > may not care about exposing your laptop directly tothe Internet (after > all, you do so anyway when on the road, so it's already hardened), but > when you start to expose your printer, tv, game console..... do you > really trust that all of those vendors have hardened their machines to > be reasonably safe if exposed directly to the Internet? >
Eventually we'll have to get there, we'll have to put pressure on the vendors to harden all devices. What if you have a special toaster, and want to take you with you at the hotel, and you want it to retrieve the perfect toasting level for everybody in the family from some service on the web? What if you're on the road and want to print on your home or office printer - yes VPNs take care of that, but a hardened printer that only accept an encrypted authenticated connection would be easier. And that's just the begining. -- Yves. http://www.SollerS.ca/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
