[71212] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Even you can be hacked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Thu Jun 10 18:29:47 2004
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 17:25:40 -0500
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040610175421.J22420@thunder.xecu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Andy Dills wrote:
> Keep in mind, this guy's ISP, like many (most?) ISPs would do, gave the
> guy a serious break on the first jaw-dropping bill.
Why do I have to get two and three copies of each of these? I'm on
the list folks, if you send it to the list I'll get it. I don't need
a copy to the list and Cc:'s until the end of time.
But since I am here, let me also ask that we kee in mind, that if this
guy is anyting like folks close to home here, his ISP requires him
to run a current version of IE, OE and NT of some kind.
He hooked that up, his ISP delivered a a successful attack on the
combination.
Now, let's stop the movie and identify the negligent parties and
the responsible parties. No huge bill yet, no infected anybody
else yet.
>
> But if you're the phone company, and a customer mysteriously has somebody
> break into their house month after month to call Hong Kong for a few
> hours, do you really think they're going to keep voiding those charges?
> Clearly the customer is negligent, even if another party is directly
> responsible.
>
> Speaking for Xecunet, we offer both capped and metered billing packages,
> and we always make a point of offering customers a capped solution when
> something like this happens. If they decline, we make sure they understand
> that in the future they will be liable for 100% of the packets coming from
> their port, regardless of the circumstances. Maybe we should start putting
> this in writing, but it hasn't really been a problem.
>
> Andy
>
> ---
> Andy Dills
> Xecunet, Inc.
> www.xecu.net
> 301-682-9972
> ---
>
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