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Protecting the Internet: Certified Attachments and Reverse Firewalls?
by bucy at 12:49 pm EST, Mar 17, 2005

]
] Is it unreasonable to conceive of a day, perhaps a day
] not all that far distant, when only certified equipment
] can be legally plugged into the Internet?

Karl Auerbach writing on CircleID. A counterpoint to the piece Decius bogged.

RE: Protecting the Internet: Certified Attachments and Reverse Firewalls?
by Decius at 1:50 pm EST, Mar 17, 2005

bucy wrote:
] ]
] ] Is it unreasonable to conceive of a day, perhaps a day
] ] not all that far distant, when only certified equipment
] ] can be legally plugged into the Internet?
]
] Karl Auerbach writing on CircleID. A counterpoint to the
] piece Decius bogged.

A counterpoint? Maybe, maybe not. I think this is still a very radical approach. We can make progress by incenting ISPs to work on this problem without having to take such drastic measures.