Thanks, very interesting. I imagined that it might be a little like that. Certainly I can see how scanning for vulnerabilities can stand out!

Rgds

Damon

Thanks!

Damon

Indeed, this seems a key advantage to me and something I tried to get a small European telco to look at years ago. Great that it's finally happening.

(It's going to make some simple security filtering by source IP a little harder...)

Rgds

Damon

I am interested to understand what level of inspection you could and did perform to decide "abusiveness". Especially for the secure traffic.

Rgds

Damon

Surely the trailing wire back to the exchange was a bigger problem?

Rgds

Damon

I used to run a SPARC box with 4MB (yes, mega) as my gateway/firewall machine when I was one of the few ISPs in the UK with (a) a live 'Internet' connection and (b) any sort of firewall.

I called the machine 'lemon' (http://www.exnet.com/NTP/ARC/ARC.html lemon.exnet.com) because it was (as a safety measure) pretty much incapable of running a compiler in that space, but it ran a mail proxy and firewall (http://www.exnet.com/ExFilter/V1.1.3-manual.html which I wrote to make sure I understoof what was going on) just fine.

Rgds

Damon

This is how it's meant to work in the UK, but the body responsible for vetting jobs once leaving office seems never to say "no", and that's according to at least Private Eye and some private conversations!

Rgds

Damon

Simply not true.

I worked there as a contractor during that period. It was fairly grim, but don't ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence for example. It was also a better outcome than for my previous client, Lehman Brothers, in that it wasn't dropped on the floor for no particularly good reason, throwing away even more value and confidence.

Please don't quote conspiracy theories in the absence of any actual facts.

It is true that reducing the global markets operation is stated policy, but that is about reducing risk and making RBS more viable, not to "run [it] into the ground".

Rgds

Damon

Add "on a computer" and patent it?

Rgds

Damon

DAMON MA I!

All defeated if the customer pays in cash, and intends to offload the mechanise for cash ASAP.

Rgds

Damon