[nsp-sec] creative lying

[Chris Morrow]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Smith, Donald wrote:

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> No problem at all except who owns/manages the CPE (customer provided
> equipment) and what is their payout for doing this?
>
> I agree its a good idea how do we get our customers to perform that
> filtering?
> In many cases the guy setting up an enterprises router has never heard
> of cymru or seen cisco's security blue prints or read a juniper manual
> about security. They simply want to router to work and once it begins
> working they leave it alone.

and.. for whatever reason, managed CPE (routers) is not a huge business in 
the US. It seems like it's huge business in EMEA/APAC though, which always 
made me a little confused.

-Chris