I don't see the malware connection here. Comcast's P2P traffic blocking is designed to either cut down on network usage or to placate Hollywood.
Richard > I think Sonny still brings up a good point about it being a slippery > slope. By turn over the responsibility of Malware filtering to the > ISPs, who has oversight? These are commercial entities not necessarily > following any industry standard or government requirements - they make > up their own rules and with them comes inconsistency and, potentially, > outright censorship. > > I agree that blocking is a powerful means of forcing awareness through > the potential loss of business and interruption in services but I > think there needs to be some sort of happy medium such as an industry > fostered and supported standard - not all these arbitrary blacklists > and ISP-specific pick-and-choose block rules... > > On 10/19/07, Young, Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> As mentioned before, this is the only way to get ISP senior management >> attention towards "fixing" infected hosts. > > > -- > B.K. DeLong (K3GRN) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +1.617.797.8471 > > http://www.wkdelong.org Son. > http://www.ianetsec.com Work. > http://www.bostonredcross.org Volunteer. > http://www.carolingia.eastkingdom.org Service. > http://bkdelong.livejournal.com Play. > > > PGP Fingerprint: > 38D4 D4D4 5819 8667 DFD5 A62D AF61 15FF 297D 67FE > > FOAF: > http://foaf.brain-stream.org > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
