Well, that explains why I have started getting spam to my Ameritrade email address MANY MONTHS AGO. Yup, I gave them a one-time-use address, and it was compromised. It goes to a black hole now, but I still see how often it is tried in my mail logs. But this has been going on for quite some time (and I closed this account a long time ago before this, and thought maybe they sold my address for doing so).
I can't view this now - big brother's proxy and all - but it sounds like the good old days of the C64 BBSs that used PETSCII graphics. Full color, and many graphical characters - however ALL CAPS TEXT ONLY! But the days of the good old animated prompts and colorful message boards are still in my memories, yet I have no desire to go back to them and wait for a cursor to jump all around the screen at 1200 baud!
Of all the things I have seen flying back and forth about this and that, this has got to be one of the worse ideas I have seen yet for the Internet community. Should this go through, we finally give up the internet as it was designed to be - a global network of open systems. Just because some software manufacturers cannot design a system that is open to one expoit after the next, do we start modifying our infrastructure to compensate? I think that is ludicrous! I can see the need to deal with ping floods and brodcast storms, but viruses at the router level? Some day, somebody's streaming video is going to fail because the router detected an anomaly in the bitstream - or worse yet, what if some SSL encrypted data gets trapped? Let the servers deal with their data. If they cannot handle it, well, that's just their problem. So much for a free, open internet... I have seen this concept getting buried more and more every day, but at least it was just being overshadowed by those who seek to exploit it's nature for the most part - but now we are placing such restrictions into the infrastructure.
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Well, that explains why I have started getting spam to my Ameritrade email address MANY MONTHS AGO. Yup, I gave them a one-time-use address, and it was compromised. It goes to a black hole now, but I still see how often it is tried in my mail logs. But this has been going on for quite some time (and I closed this account a long time ago before this, and thought maybe they sold my address for doing so).
I can't view this now - big brother's proxy and all - but it sounds like the good old days of the C64 BBSs that used PETSCII graphics. Full color, and many graphical characters - however ALL CAPS TEXT ONLY! But the days of the good old animated prompts and colorful message boards are still in my memories, yet I have no desire to go back to them and wait for a cursor to jump all around the screen at 1200 baud!
Of all the things I have seen flying back and forth about this and that, this has got to be one of the worse ideas I have seen yet for the Internet community. Should this go through, we finally give up the internet as it was designed to be - a global network of open systems. Just because some software manufacturers cannot design a system that is open to one expoit after the next, do we start modifying our infrastructure to compensate? I think that is ludicrous! I can see the need to deal with ping floods and brodcast storms, but viruses at the router level? Some day, somebody's streaming video is going to fail because the router detected an anomaly in the bitstream - or worse yet, what if some SSL encrypted data gets trapped? Let the servers deal with their data. If they cannot handle it, well, that's just their problem. So much for a free, open internet... I have seen this concept getting buried more and more every day, but at least it was just being overshadowed by those who seek to exploit it's nature for the most part - but now we are placing such restrictions into the infrastructure.