I work for a nationwide wide isp that handles thousands of dsl customers and i have yet to recieve one report from a customer complaining about an intrusion even though we use static ip's. The probability of being hacked is just too low to warrant the recent flood of warnings that broadband customers are in serious danger of being hacked. The problem lies with customers fearing the worst and putting software firewalls in place and call in every 5 minutes claiming they are being hacked by their own isp. Come one guys...do you really think that everyone wants to steal your valuable mp3's and your nice new broadband collection of porn. How about those.txt documents...pretty interesting stuff.
Slashdot Mirror
I work for a nationwide wide isp that handles thousands of dsl customers and i have yet to recieve one report from a customer complaining about an intrusion even though we use static ip's. The probability of being hacked is just too low to warrant the recent flood of warnings that broadband customers are in serious danger of being hacked. The problem lies with customers fearing the worst and putting software firewalls in place and call in every 5 minutes claiming they are being hacked by their own isp. Come one guys...do you really think that everyone wants to steal your valuable mp3's and your nice new broadband collection of porn. How about those .txt documents...pretty interesting stuff.