Broadband Crackdown

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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[cyberdonny]

You misclicked Insightful instead of Flamebait. Come on:

Because 99.9% of security issues comes from someone running an unpatched redhat box at home.

How can this possibly be anything other than flamebait or troll? Especially when posted to a story about a vulnerability/worm in a Micro$oft OS!

Ok, I've got some karma to burn, so go ahead, and take me three points!

All thanks to Bill Gates Army of Evil Monkeys !!!

[spaten]

Once again Bill Gates has contributed to the constricting grip of corporate hands around the neck of a hardly free internet. Because Microsoft produces an inferior web server product, just one in the family, that has diffuculty holding up against virii of any sort. ISP's are "forced" to restrict access of individuals in order to "protect" the whole. Hell, with this logic it seems that it would make more sense to simply prohibit the use of Microsoft OS's on the ISP's network.

- Gee, thanks @Home, but I thought you were gonna kiss me first!