>police to monitor our highways. The choice is anarchy. The only people
>who can truly provide the required "policing" are the service
>providers. The fact in the matter in this whole thing is the only
>person unaffected is the cracker. It's likely they've cracked other M1
>boxes as well. I'm not complaining about being temporarily kicked off.
>I am complaining about it's "permanent" nature and about the complete
>lack of anyone trying to fix the real problem... the crackers.
To me this is the most alarming of the entire discussion. I don't want M1,
the government AT&T or anyone else monitoring my private communication on
the internet. In order for them to be able to "protect" us from our own
ignorance on security they would have to monitor every pakect which
travelled on their wires, understand it, understand it's intent, and decide
for us what is allowed to access our boxes and what is not. How do you
propose M1 determine whether the FTP login which has occured on your box was
valid or invalid. I don't know if you were attacked through FTP or not -
(and since you deleted all logs which might hold the answer I doubt if you
know either) the point is that someone attempted and succeeded at making a
remote connection to your box, installed a few backdoors, and initiated some
software which offended M1 and violated their EULA agreement which you
signed. How do you propose that M1 determine for you (since you seem to be
un interested in taking on the burden yourself) that the remote access
wasn't infact you calling in from the road? To do this they would have to
become very invasive in monitoring all traffic on the network and probably
also "attack" your machine and monitor your logs for you to determine if
there were a series of retry/failures or scans which might indicate
maliciousness. Or you could provide them with a list of acceptable remote
access points .... But of course you could just configure those into your
own system if you wanted to bother....
Why do you want M1 or any other service provider or governmental agency
monitoring your machines and network communications? I don't!
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