Re:Oh nooooossss111!1!1....I'm Shortsighted

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B Premium,MVM join:2000-10-28	reply to rawwhide Re:Oh nooooossss111!1!1....I'm Shortsighted Completely correct! It started with Port 25 blocks (which some foolishly continue to defend as necessary for overall spam prevention). Then locally hosted inbound server ports of all kinds were blocked, from WWW to Mail to FTP. It continued with known worm ports (with somewhat more justification but still an abridgement of Internet access and utility for some). Then it extended to "throttling" and bandwidth shaping and tiering of VPN and VoIP and other services. Then ISPs started eliminating services like in-house Usenet and chat servers. Every time the sheep-like customers accept yet another restriction on their Internet connection (and far too few even know what term means) it portends a darker future for all of us... -- B -- In a realm outside causality and function
B Premium,MVM join:2000-10-28	to forum · permalink · · 2005-12-20 16:48:05 ·
Shamayim I already have a Messiah. Premium join:2002-09-23	Worth repeating said by B : Every time the sheep-like customers accept yet another restriction on their Internet connection (and far too few even know what term means) it portends a darker future for all of us... . -- "tick...tick...tick..." »www.jtf.org/
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novaflare The Dragon Was Here Premium join:2002-01-24 Barberton, OH	reply to B Re:Oh nooooossss111!1!1....I'm Shortsighted Blocking out going ports is simply retarded. I know one game used a port (upd port) that was 1 higher than a common worm port at the time for their server. Some idiot tech for a major au isp blocked it instead of the worm port. They blocked some 1000+ customers from accessing the game they were paying to play. My god the number of tickets about that was stagering. Nearly all the 1k players posted. Why in the hell the isp edecided to block a outgoing port ill never know. As for the legality of bit torrent downloads theres no question pirated software and movies make it on there but the number of games and other software companies distributing their programs on bit torrent is unbeleivable. Youd be hard pressed to find one new game or peice of free ware trial ware etc software that doesnt have a bit torrent download option. Comapnies have embraced bit torrent big time. It saves them a ton of money in band width costs. -- DSLR security chat at us.ausirc.net chanel #dslr_sec lets pack this channelopen source dns server for *nix and windows »powerdns.com
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