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Re: Few questions to the american ISPs [Re: DDOS anecdotes]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Sat Jun 23 22:09:13 2001

Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 22:03:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
To: Pim van Riezen <pi@vuurwerk.nl>
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	Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.EU.net>, nanog@merit.edu,
	"Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>
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On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Pim van Riezen wrote:

> The many ways in which cable providers fail to care about security is
> mindboggling.

Actually doing something about security would cut into the bottom line,
so they don't do it.

Incidentally, the idea of handing out instructions on locking down 'puters
connected to broadband lines is an excellent idea. Can't speak for anyone
else, but I'm going to implement it. 


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