dardin
join:2002-11-19
Tucson, AZ
1 edit | ummmmmm............
How smart is this? Not smart at all. Just think of all the idiots who will use this service and get infected with viruses and the company cannot even contact their customers to inform them they are infected because they don't know which customers are infected. Not to mention if someone is hacking or doing other illegal things. If I was a spammer I'd be ordering this service today. You can spam and not even your ISP can identify it's coming from you.
This was created by a marketing department and I bet the network admins of this company are in a uproar over this.
Stupidest idea I have ever read. I'll be sure to blacklist this company from my mail servers. |
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justin
Australian
join:1999-05-28
Brooklyn, NY
Host:
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| I don't understand what you mean at all.
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Just think of all the idiots who will use this service and get infected with viruses and the company cannot even contact their customers to inform them they are infected because they don't know which customers are infected.
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dardin
join:2002-11-19
Tucson, AZ
1 edit | Basically they have no way to track their own abuse issues. They will have customers infected with viruses or hacked and they will have no way to know what customer it is.
This ISP will be like most of China. |
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justin
Australian
join:1999-05-28
Brooklyn, NY | no ISPs act on that information anyway.
Contact a local ISP and tell them one of their subscribers is doing port scans, they don't do anything about it. So no loss. |
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gamecock
join:2002-01-15
Panama City Beach, FL
| reply to dardin
said by dardin  :
How smart is this?
This is very smart for a company wanting to attract a lot of users. This is a great service for file sharers and privacy freaks.
I'm too far from the Co to get DSL. If I could get it, I would sign up immediately. |
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SuperJudge
Magus
Premium
join:2002-11-14
Albany, GA
clubs:
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said by justin :
no ISPs act on that information anyway.
Contact a local ISP and tell them one of their subscribers is doing port scans, they don't do anything about it. So no loss.
Good point.
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Megladon13
join:2003-09-05
Minneapolis, MN | reply to dardin
2 or 3 terroristic threats to anyone @ whitehouse.gov from users of this service should shut it down rather quick. |
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justin
Australian
join:1999-05-28
Brooklyn, NY
Host:
IPv6
Business Connectiv..
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Console/Handheld g..
Console Tech
| said by Megladon13 :
2 or 3 terroristic threats to anyone @ whitehouse.gov from users of this service should shut it down rather quick.
Don't you think they get 100s of those every day? along with a million bits of spam? they go straight into the trash bin. |
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SuperJudge
Magus
Premium
join:2002-11-14
Albany, GA
clubs: | I wonder how many people go through data containing key words on Echelon. |
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hambone6666
Sigmarick Said Arse
join:2001-02-13
Stamford, CT
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I wonder how many people go through data containing key words on Echelon.
WARNING: you have just been flagged by the NSA. lol.
keyword-Echelon
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jdmurray
Premium
join:2001-03-02
Huntington Beach, CA
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This service sounds like a Honey Pot to attract and monitor Internet users who (at least) believe that they are doing something they shouldn't and wish to avoid detection.
ROUND 'EM ALL UP ON THE SAME CORRAL, BRAND 'EM, and KEEP AN EYE ON 'EM!! THAT'S WHAT I SAY!! YEEEEE-HAAAA!!!
[Note: This is not an endorsement for anonymous DSL services by the Howard Dean for President campaign.] |
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hambone6666
Sigmarick Said Arse
join:2001-02-13
Stamford, CT
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| said by jdmurray :
This service sounds like a Honey Pot to attract and monitor Internet users
Right. Behind the black curtain, this company is financed by the CIA. |
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gnx87
Premium
join:2001-02-20
Oakdale, PA
| reply to justin
said by justin :
no ISPs act on that information anyway.
Contact a local ISP and tell them one of their subscribers is doing port scans, they don't do anything about it. So no loss.
Umm my ISP does. I made the stupid decision to port scan UUnet and my ISP called 24hrs later saying UUnet contacted them saying i was scanning such and such ports on their network why was i doing that. I played it off like a virus must have been doing it.
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SuperJudge
Magus
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join:2002-11-14
Albany, GA
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Dag, IR forked! Oh know!!1 |
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bored_in_nh
join:2003-01-04
Stamping Ground, KY | reply to dardin
Please stop. You're confusing me. The ISP will be mountainous, dry, and rural?
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Varangian
join:2002-12-08
Collinsville, IL | reply to hambone6666
My Paranoid bone is resonating with yours - "it's a trap!" |
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MazakGuy7
join:2004-03-05
Hillsdale, MI
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Who cares what the networks admins think. It's the customers who pay for the service that matter. If they don't like it that can quit. If they try to screw it up, I say fire them, and give them bad references, so they can't get another tech job. I say it's time for the PAYING customers to get what they want for a change, instead of what some nerdy tech head wants to give them.
my .02 |
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Qumahlin
Never Enough Time
Premium,MVM
join:2001-10-05
united state
| reply to gnx87
Thing is UUnet is not much of a "residential" isp...UUnet provides mainly to large businesses and is also a backbone provider.
A call from a backbone provider to your isp is way way different then just another isp or customer calling
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PhoenixDown
-- Wants FIOS
Premium
join:2003-06-08
Fresh Meadows, NY
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I've met Joe Plotkin and some of the other folks at bway and have worked with one of there vendors... they are cool and very big on providing customers with quality services and maintaining there rights.
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dslextreme
Premium,VIP
join:2001-02-23
Canoga Park, CA
| reply to justin
said by justin :
no ISPs act on that information anyway.
Contact a local ISP and tell them one of their subscribers is doing port scans, they don't do anything about it. So no loss.
No true Justin. We take illicit port scanning activities very seriously. While I can not divulge our exact policy, I can assure you that lots of people have been booted off our network for port scanning activities.
Ari
CEO
DSL Extreme |
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