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Should ISPs Be The Little Man's Firewall?

Posted by timothy on from the then-the-spammers-have-won dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "In a paper published today, the point is made that ISPs should filter some ports (e.g. 135) for good. I guess given what everyone sees hitting their various firewalls these days, this may make sense. But wasn't the Internet supposed to be 'open' at one point? Or are we to the point where Internet=Web (and maybe AIM). The author of the paper is operating DShield and I guess has some insight into this issue. He made the same points before on various mailing lists."

2 of 790 comments (clear)

  1. Re:absolutley not... by garcia · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    enough of the MS-hating bullshit.

    If/when the scales tip in favor of Linux so will the virus writers desire to write for Linux.

  2. Re:At MOST it should be optional... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    Try studying.