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| reply to AVonGauss
Re: I would be afraid to be a Frontier Customer i could not agree more. these usage based plans have so much flaw in their design that it is just asking for problems. i can't wait to see what the first DoS attack against an entire block of ip addresses gets a bunch of customers over their quota and nets the ISP a huge profit.
these kinds of plans are so ugly that it really makes me sick whenever i think of how they could be abused.
another example:
lets say that someone with stock in a major bell company decides to add a little revenue regularly to said company. all they would have to do is send massive ammounts of data (using botnets maybe?) to said bell companies customers ip blocks. across the board overages. not that the isp would care. they would just send the bill with the overages. maybe giving customers a comp whenever they would call in and complain about it. and thats a big maybe there. |
