FCC Chair Calls On ISPs To Adopt New Security Measures

alphadogg writes "U.S. Internet service providers should take new steps to protect subscribers against cyber attacks, including notifying customers when their computers are compromised, the chairman of the FCC said Wednesday. Julius Genachowski called on ISPs to notify subscribers whose computers are infected with malware and tied to a botnet and to develop a code of conduct to combat botnets. Genachowski also called on ISPs to adopt secure routing standards to protect against Internet Protocol hijacking and to implement DNSSEC, a suite of security tools for the Internet's Domain Name System."

Comments

Torrents

[mehrotra.akash]

Will torrent clients be classified as malware as well?

Re:Torrents

[PopeRatzo]

I think what we need is to promote an awareness of just how important the Internet is, that screwing around with it for any reason other than good engineering is a bad idea.

First, we might need to promote an awareness of just what the Internet actually is. How it works and why.

We've got young people who don't recall a time before Internet, and don't know how and why it came into being and know nothing about it's potential. To many of them, it's just another shopping mall/arcade.

For my money, the Electronic Freedom Foundation is currently doing the best work in this regard, so I send them money. But it also takes those of us who do have some awareness of these things taking the time to explain it. To advocate for it. To protect it. We have to make sure our shared memories, our shared culture, survives.

There are a lot of powerful forces that would love to turn the Internet into the home shopping network on steroids. Into a one-way media outlet that tells us what's what. Into just another "cool" medium.

We have to use the power of our oral tradition and our written tradition to spread the word on a person to person level. One to one and one to many. We must fight on the blogs, we must fight in the comment sections, we have to fight on the streets and on the beaches, We must never surrender. (OK, I got a little carried away at the end there, but you get the idea).