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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."

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  1. Re:At MOST it should be optional... by gclef · · Score: 3, Funny

    Okay, so you're telling me that 99% of the users in the world have no need for p2p, some online chat features, online games, and a few other things I'm too lazy to look up? (all of these require incoming ports to be opened on the client, in case it wasn't obvious.)

    As they say on the mailing lists: I encourage my competitors to run their networks this way.