[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/30/2003 01:15:48 AM:
<Descriptions of cable modem security horrors>
> That's the real threat. Granted, maybe not the entire net, but a far
> larger portion than you'd like to think is healthy.
I have never been more scared for my Internet security than the day that my
cable modem was installed. I had an Ethernet network with an OS/2 computer
running InJoy Dialer with an ISDN line in my basement, where my home ofice
is. I had the cable installer install the modem upstairs where the cable
was, and I plugged the modem into my network.
I went downstairs to continue the installation and heard one of my
computers beeping madly: 2-3 beeps per second. I didn't know what it was.
I found out it was InJoy beeping at me because I had exceeded the number of
users I was licensed for. It was the cable modem sending out thousands of
packets that were trying to route *through* my network over the ISDN.
This is back a few years, when cable Internet was brand new. I had used
several different brands of DSL and didn't see *anything* like this. It
was a total suprise to see the junk that a cable modem brings to your
computer.
Cable Internet is dangerous. IPsec and cable Internet is very dangerous:
make **SURE** you have it set up correctly!
Tim Massey
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