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Broadband Crackdown

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the brave-new-world-of-high-speed-internet-access dept.

MrPeach writes: "In a move unsurprising to those of us who have had interactions with their so-called customer support, AT&T Broadband and Excite@Home are indefinitely filtering all incoming traffic on http port 80 for residential customers. They could have cut access to those running compromised servers, but instead chose to deny the ability to run a web server to all subscribers to their service. DSL anyone?" DSL won't save you. Verizon is apparently also blocking port 80 for their DSL customers, in addition to blocking outgoing port 25 and requiring use of Verizon's SMTP servers to send email. Verizon is also cheerfully paying fines for screwing over their competitors - the fines will be much less than the extra profit they can squeeze out once their competition is gone.

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  1. Drop the dramatics by NDPTAL85 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you want to create and serve content then buy a dedicated line and quit bitching about not being able to do whatever you want on a RESIDENTIAL line.

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  2. why would anyone use windows as a server? by arielb · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Windows is for games and Microsoft Office. but if you are scared of a commandline then you have no business touching a server. That's why we have these problems. Not because one OS is more advanced than the other but for the simple reason that Windows makes it easier for idiots to screw up the net for the rest of us

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  3. Thanks Micheal, but by loraksus · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    as usual, you're full of shit. Lets try to verify some info before pasting bullshit on this site. OK? Cool.
    I don't bitch at the story editors much, but this kind of shit pisses me off.

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    Verizon hasn't blocked _anything_ yet.
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    Don't like this post? Fuck you, mod me down. I'm still right, visit my webpage, the link is above, I'm a verizon subscriber, running apache (used to be IIS untill 2 days ago) and an email server on a 2k box.

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  4. hmm by mlong · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I've noticed something here. A sure fire way to get a story posted is to simply mention how company x (big bad business) is screwing group Y over (victim)...throw in a few smart-ass remarks (bait), and maybe a few exagerations (scare tactics) and wham...its frontpage news.

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