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Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- considered harmful

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Wed, 08 May 2019 23:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [arch-d] deprecating Postel's principle- considered harmful
To: Joe Touch <touch@strayalpha.com>
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From: Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com>
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Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 19:55:49 -0400
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On 5/8/19 7:51 PM, Joe Touch wrote:

>> On May 8, 2019, at 9:49 AM, Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com 
>> <mailto:moore@network-heretics.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> Don’t assume malice where incompetence can suffice.
>>
>> Except that today's network/is/filled with deliberately malevolent 
>> entities..
>>
> All we experience are behaviors; It’s more than sufficient to react to 
> them.
>
> Attributing intent isn’t any more useful here than in a courtroom.

I'm fairly confident that nearly everyone who attacks a system or 
network finds ways to justify their actions to themselves as promoting 
some version of a greater good.   But if you're trying to design a 
robust system or network or protocol, it's probably unwise to give the 
attackers the benefit of the doubt.

Keith

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