You should write the article and submit it to the New York Times technology group. I believe David Pogue still works there, and he is a tech guy, so maybe he would be a good vehicle to get it published. I used to work with DAVID at Macworld magazine.
But it’s not the job for an ISP, or even something an ISP could get the major media to publish. -mel via cell > On Jan 17, 2026, at 4:50 PM, Tim Burke <[email protected]> wrote: > > The problem I see is that an article like this is intended for an > IT/security professional audience. > > These TV piracy boxes are often used by uneducated folks that would not read > such an article. They just want their sports and $cableNewsChannel, and if > you tell them it’s illegal or full of malware, they will just tell you you’re > wrong, keep using it, and let it cause their 1Gbps circuit to get saturated > by botnet traffic, all in the name of “free television”. > > I have joined a few social media groups about these devices out of sheer > curiosity, and have seen a number of threads from folks that ask why an ISPs > security offering (typically Comcast’s “XFi Security” or AT&T’s “Active > Armor”) would be complaining about traffic coming from the device… the common > trend is to tell people to disable the security services, as “Infinity [SIC] > is just trying to force you to buy their cable”. > > Hooray for Stockholm syndrome. > >> On Jan 16, 2026, at 20:10, Mel Beckman via NANOG <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Roland, >> >> The Krebs article you cite is even better than the one I linked, because it >> shows pictures of the many consumer devices that can be infiltrated. People >> are likely to immediately recognize any they own, which will drive home the >> point that this is their problem. >> >> -mel >> >>>> On Jan 16, 2026, at 5:43 PM, Dobbins, Roland via NANOG >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Jan 16, 2026, at 22:16, Benjamin Hatton via NANOG >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> As a smaller ISP, I think the biggest thing that would help us would be a >>> 'mainstream' media outlet covering some of it so we have something to show >>> customers who call in about their internet being bad, us telling them it is >>> their android streaming box that is taking up their entire connection >>> moving TBs of data a day, and them responding with "but I bought it from >>> Walmart/Amazon" or "you are just trying to get me to sign up for your >>> cable" and refusing to do anything about it because 'free TV'. >>> >>> <https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/01/the-kimwolf-botnet-is-stalking-your-local-network/> >>> The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local >>> Network<https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/01/the-kimwolf-botnet-is-stalking-your-local-network/> >>> krebsonsecurity.com<https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/01/the-kimwolf-botnet-is-stalking-your-local-network/> >>> [favicon.ico]<https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/01/the-kimwolf-botnet-is-stalking-your-local-network/> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NANOG mailing list >>> https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GC4T5N6XUSX3LGV3BQE4QT6CJ6G2ZUNK/ >> _______________________________________________ >> NANOG mailing list >> https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/3LYEDZZ6DQ6FMGD5VXTM3I4PZDIYMPWE/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/HZIDJSNEGSCFNHTAZ2IFWZ32ZG6WWU5T/
