[asterisk-biz] Hacking the network

[David Gibbons]

Wow, wow, wow!

I should have worded things a bit more clearly because my point seems to be misconstrued. Not the first time it's happened with vague analogies... :)

To be clear, you only have yourself to BLAME if you leave your doors unlocked. That's not to say that the break-in was right, justified or legal, just that you should have used a measure of caution.

I'm not saying that there's no culpability for crooks, I'm saying that just like driving defensively, we need to be proactive about security. If someone registers a phone against your SIP server and uses 10k long distance minutes across the globe, your upstream provider will likely not have any sympathy for you. We have no one to blame but ourselves when we overlook security.

The sad truth is that there are bad people out there who are doing bad things. We can wear the rose colored glasses all we want, but it's best to lock the doors before putting them on.



-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Ron Arts
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 10:36 AM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Hacking the network

Alex Balashov schreef:
> David Gibbons wrote:
>
>> If I leave my doors unlocked and someone ‘breaks’ into my house, I don’t
>> get to be angry because it’s really my fault.
>
> Proceeding from the reference frame of contemporary legal norms in
> Western societies, this logic is difficult to follow.
>
> It seems rather akin to saying that I should not be upset if I return
> to find my car dynamited to bits, because it was my fault I left it
> parked on a public street without hiring guards or paramilitaries to
> watch it.
>

And this only being a small step to:

'you shouldn't have dressed so provocatively, so it's your own fault for being raped..'

Even if you leave the backdoor open, it's still the burglars' 'fault',
or does anyone think he shouldn't be punished?

Ron


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