On Friday 10 March 2006 10:50, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > *May* be nefarious, yes perhaps, *is* nefarious - no proof for that. > Anyway, why are you so stubbornly concerned about a bunch of > Microsofties with a possibly open port? Two reasons.
Because if the "Microsofties" are cracked the result will be umpteen gigabytes of traffic which T/C will have to inevitably write off for the customer(s), yet T/C will be charged for it by their up-stream provider. Thus this cost becomes an 'overhead' for which we all, you included, have to pay a fraction. Because, in this case, the "Microsofties" are just normal folks living down the street, who have been taken for a ride by the arch-criminal in Redmond. They don't deserve to have to deal with a different overseas corporate entity sending them a bill for tens of thousands of dollars for traffic which, while coming from their installation, they are not responsible for initiating. In this connection the T/C installer told me that I was the first customer he had been to who had any form of separate firewall, and a tale about a customer who had run up ~$60,000 worth of traffic in his first month because he had been cracked / 0wned / r00ted, call it what you like. Nobody deserves that. Anyway, why are you so defensive about TelstraClear? They are just yet another overseas corporate screwing New Zealanders for as much as they possibly can. Compare the cost and speed of a connection here to that in other countries. South Korea is the prime example. P.S. please don't strip the original text to which you are replying to such an extent that its context and authorship are destroyed. -- CS
