Ah but the caveat here is that it is a federal mandate brought down on the ISPs leaving them without the option to back down. I am interested in seeing just how the government will choose to enforce/enact such wide-sweeping legislation.
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Dave Dennis <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Thomas Raef > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/01/25/1458231/Australian-ISPs-To-Disconnect-Botnet-Zombies?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29 > > > Please share your thoughts. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thomas J. Raef > > > > > The usual mess of uninformed, speculative, hearsay and panic on /. > > So. > > If the IsP is doing captive portal surfing and attempting to provide > malware > detection/cleaning tools, they have a noble purpose, but could run into > interesting legal liability if the idiot home user managed to screw the > pooch > and make an unbootable system as a result. The logic in the captive portal > would possibly need to be bright enough to handle every besotted version of > Windows from 95 to present, with all interop of old applications accounted > for > or at least not a concern. Thats a tall ask. So once they start breaking > heretofore "not broken" (as far as the home user is concerned) systems, > then > what ? Its easily provable the home user PC was infected due to > traffic/signature/activity logged, but thats not going to mean anything to > the > home user if he/she can't boot up and play mafia wars. > > I think fwiw this is usually where the conversation breaks down in the USA > on > this subject: To do the home fix the infected PC dance actually takes a > little > bit more than just malware removal: it takes behavior modification, it > takes > browser locking down / ad network blocking, it takes somehow coming up with > a > fix to years of really poor decisions on the part of the user, who > presumably is > running an old, unpatched, botched registry full of half-uninstalled > malware and > spyware and various apps, any of which may or may not be able to withstand > a > thorough clean/replace of some fairly important DLL. > > So you get them to sign off on this, but their PC is mangled (to them) > afterwards, now what. Customer support beat down, loads of posts to > various > dumbass consumer sites like Consumerist, "My ISP Broke My Computer" and > various > crying youtubes later, and will the ISP have the balls to stick to their > guns? > > Or will they back down and cave in? > > I don't see how they can avoid caving in. Most users are monumentally > uninformed with regard to spyware / malware, their own risk averse > behavior, and > what even happened a week ago on the same PC. > > > My .02 > > -Dave D > > > > +------------------------- > + Dave Dennis > + Seattle, WA > + Speakeasy, Inc. > + [email protected] > + http://www.speakeasy.net > +------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 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. >
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