[97473] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Fri Jun 15 17:20:35 2007
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:17:50 -0700
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
Reply-To: <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
-------- Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:--------------
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:42:04 PDT, Scott Weeks said:
> No I've never heard of that except, possibly, from non-clued phone monkeys.
> It's easy to get past them to more clued folks, though...
Maybe it's easy for you. It's usually a bit harder for a Joe Sixpack who
has a Mac or Linux box, but doesn't have the industry connections we do.
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If Joe Sixpack has a Mac, calls his ISP for help, is told the ISP only supports Micro$loth, asks for escalation and can't get that (or even doesn't ask for escalation) I would think Joe would move to another ISP. Thus my earlier statement that the ISP which does this we-support-Micro$loth-only crazyness is doomed to failure.
scott
