Jeremy,
are you then saying that if all AOL customers were to be offered a 24x7
connection to the internet, that AOL has no responsibility to inform their
users that this would significantly increase their risk?
Network security, heck even network connectivity, is still a new idea to
most folks - ISP's are being very aggressive in offering new services to
customers who are not aware of the issues that exist in connecting a machine
to the internet over a long period of time. Most DSL services that I am
aware of are reluctant to even allow someone with two NIC's in their machine
to get service at all, making it nearly impossible to setup a firewall or
some other control element on the line.
I think that a class-action suit like this is exactly what is needed to
get more awareness of this issue.
Jason
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy T. Bouse [mailto:">undrgrid@toons.UnderGrid.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 1:32 PM
> To: ">ale@ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Wake-up call on DSL (and Broadband) - Class Action
> Lawsuit
>
>
>         Come on, give me a break... Can any sensible person
> after reading
> this URL tell me they honestly believe this is the fault of
> the ISP? The
> only way to keep a computer secure is to keep it off any network... If
> you're going to connect a machine to the internet you had better make
> damn well sure any files you wouldn't want made public are
> not available
> either by not having them on said machine or atleast make
> sure all file
> sharing is turned off... This just shows poor knowledge of computer
> security and filing frivelous lawsuits against someone to
> cover for their
> own stupidity in the matter...
>
>         Respectfully,
>         Jeremy T. Bouse
>         UnderGrid Network Services, LLC
>
> Michael H. Warfield was said to been seen saying:
> > Hello all...
> >
> >         We've had discussions over Broadband and DSL on this
> list before.
> > This little gem should be interesting to anyone with DSL or
> thinking about
> > DSL or running DSL. This should be of particular interest
> to that group
> > here in Atlanta who claimed the DSL connections to their
> customers were
> > secure because they were "dedicated". Note that this is
> not just DSL
> > but also carries the same issues and implications for
> Broadband, dedicated
> > ISDN, or even dedicated analog. The issues are with the "dedicated"
> > and the "lack of security".
> >
> >         PacBell is now subject to a class action lawsuit for not warning
> > their customers about the security issues with their DSL
> connections.
> >
> >         http://news.excite.com/news/zd/000410/12/home-is-where
> >
> >         Mike
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