At 12:30 PM -0600 10/11/2009, Nestamicky wrote: >On 11/10/09 9:58 AM, Dan wrote: >> Keeping your computers secure is YOUR responsibility. If your ISP >> provides you with something fancy, like a NAT router, or a media >> bridge, that's great -- but that's done to conveniently maintain > > routing integrity, not security. Your home is YOUR responsibility. > >This is something to remember, especially with most of the ISPs giving >stuff to customers that costs real money at the stores. If they continue >giving away 'free' wireless routers, switches, etc...they will sure put >someone out of business.
The ISP buys those devices in bulk. Providing them to the consumer keeps their network happy AND means they have fewer device types to support. That's a big financial win for the ISP. As for the stores - heh they deserve to lose some sales given their absurd pricing. >But I take your point seriously, Dan, my security at home is MY >responsibility. The issue now is whether I trust my ISP to do it for me. >Or, take the coming weekend to get D-WRT going on on my router. That's >what I was going to do anyway, until they brought in their fancy stuff, >and I got lazy about my security. Trust but Verify. Some ISPs have done some questionable things - like providing custom firmware in their routers with a back-door. The ones I've seen had it locked it down reasonably well, and the ports used weren't ones that would be open (and thus vulnerable) in your computer anyway. But still, that's just not cool. Not all the customizations are nefarious tho. eg: Verizon's custom firmware for D-Link routers was necessary to make them run fast enough to keep up with their higher speed service. D-Link never fixed the issues on their own, so Verizon ultimately solved the problem by going to a different vendor. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
