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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:56kbit dialup by windex82 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I managed to get a static out of my ISP by claiming that "my linux DHCP client wouldnt grab an IP from their server for whatever reason". At this point they were dumbfounded by tha fact that I use linux as my desktop and handed a static right over. The only draw back is I have to re-explain it anytime I have to call in-- and thats usually just to ask if the network is down or if it's just me, 99.9% of the time it's them ;)

    hmm.. maybe i should have posted this as anon...

  2. Re:At MOST it should be optional... by Mwongozi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    and yes users do care about usability, otherwise they wouldnt run windows.

    Users care about price, not usability. If they really cared about usability, they most certainly would not be running Windows.

  3. Re:At MOST it should be optional... by 1lus10n · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    really ? last i checked windows XP upgrade costed more than redhat, suse, slack, gentoo (you get the idea yet ?) etc .....

    users care about usability, usability in their mind is the same thing as familiarity.

    --
    "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." --Albert Einstein
  4. Re:At MOST it should be optional... by Mwongozi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Are you suggesting that Linux is more usable than Windows? I scoff.

    The most usable computer system on the market right now is almost certainly the Macintosh.