full-disclosure - Re: EE BrightBox router hacked

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Message-ID: <46934.1389894247@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:44:07 -0500
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Dan Ballance <tzewang.dorje@...il.com>
Cc: "full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk" <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: EE BrightBox router hacked - bares all if you
	ask nicely

On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:30:18 +0000, Dan Ballance said:

> So your point is that there should be legislation to require companies to
> adhere to certain security standards? I'd support that - particularly in an
> ISP market which is clearly defined by national boundaries and law.

OK.. What standard do you want to hoist as a legal mandate?

Bonus points for finding a standard that provides enough *actual* security
that it is worth doing, but yet won't bankrupt the industry.  Consider that
of all the credit-card breaches we've seen so far this century, something
outrageous like 97% of the victim companies had current audits that listed
them as being 100% PCI compliant at the time of the incident.

So how do you do it so it actually adds security, rather than just being
a huge government-mandate money transfer to the auditing/certification
groups involved?

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