First and foremost I have to say that flying to London and only getting two hours of crummy sleep on the plane sucks. Adding insult to injury; the local office in London was pretty warm inside, so sitting in front of a laptop and sweating from the heat didn’t keep me awake and sharp at all. I went back to the hotel at 3:00 where I held out ’till 9:00 then crashed hard.

But before I could crash and more to the point, the thing that kept me up, was my least-favorite service provider giving us grief yet again. I’ve blogged (ranted) plenty about these guys in the past. Stupid things they’ve done include requesting us to open our firewall so that they can troubleshoot their problems easier, directly connecting their management network to our network, and more (I’m looking for previous posts to link here, bear with me). I met with their CISO and Director of Security at RSA to personally provide my grievances, yet they still toss us aside like the proverbial red-headed-stepchild.

Now they want us to pipe AD communications right across the Intarweb, in the nude, without a shred of encryption. What the hell is that all about? What planet do these guys come from that its safe to shuttle AD comms through public space?

By the way, after meeting with them at RSA I felt confident they’d contact us in a timely manner and help us resolve our differences but alas, its been two weeks and here we are again making the first move towards communication. They are now dead to me.