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Ross Hosman wrote: > > Gadi, > > I appreciate your well thought out email but I sit here and wonder > what exactly you are trying to accomplish with it? Are you just trying > to shame the two ISPs listed publicly or are you trying to spark a > discussion about something that many people here can't fix? > > Many businesses today are focused on driving revenue and fixing old > CPE equipment doesn't generate revenue, it only ties up money and > resources that can be used elsewhere to drive revenue. If I were you I > would try to spin this problem in a way where you can show large ISPs > by fixing CPE's it will free up network resources and staff which can > be used elsewhere. > > The people that can fix these problems are usually unaware of them so > try to educate those people. Write CEOs/CTOs/CSOs educating them and > push the security teams for these companies to escalate these issues > to their upper management (on that note I would say this type of > discussion would be better suited for a security mailing list for the > reason I stated before, many people here can't fix these problems). > > Simply stating that there is a problem and shunning ISPs with this > problem isn't a fix for the problem, it just makes them ignore you and > the problem. > > -Ross Hi Ross, Gadi is talking about DTAG.de our biggest ISP in germany and quasi a monopoly. Gadi has reached the ears of the Pirates Party, a political party that fights monopolies. The hardware is very likely a branded version from AVM. They have no updates for the branded version, but you can unbrand it. Then you have a hardware that accepts open source firmware. Kind regards Peter and Karin -- Peter and Karin Dambier Cesidian Root - Radice Cesidiana Rimbacher Strasse 16 D-69509 Moerlenbach-Bonsweiher +49(6209)795-816 (Telekom) +49(6252)750-308 (VoIP: sipgate.de) mail: [email protected] mail: [email protected] http://iason.site.voila.fr/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/iason/ http://www.cesidianroot.com/
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