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Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes

  • From: Mike Tancsa
  • Date: Thu Oct 09 16:19:39 2003 
At 03:42 PM 09/10/2003, [email protected] wrote:
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:01:35 EDT, "McBurnett, Jim" <[email protected]> said:

> Can Broadband ISP's require a Linksys, dlink or other
> broadband router without too many problems?

So now instead of a misconfigured PC, you're going to have a misconfigured router
front-ending a misconfigured PC?
PCs of the MS variety by default are "misconfigured" and dangerous out of the box. (i.e. they dont have their patches installed and have questionable defaults). Routers of the soho variety generally are not. No its NOT perfect, but I would gladly take b) over a) any day of the week.

---Mike