Hackers Targeting Home Computers (fwd)

[Steve Schear]

At 09:41 PM 1/7/2002 +0100, Eugene Leitl wrote:
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>Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 11:15:48 -0800
>From: Hack Hawk <hh at hackhawk.net>
>To: Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org>,
>      Eugene Leitl <Eugene.Leitl at lrz.uni-muenchen.de>,
>      cryptography at wasabisystems.com
>Cc: Hadmut Danisch <hadmut at danisch.de>, dcsb at ai.mit.edu
>Subject: Re: Hackers Targeting Home Computers
>
>Although I originally used the word filter to describe a possible ISP
>action to address certain problems, the following statement from KB was
>more what I meant to suggest.  And also Lynn Wheeler's statement about
>Dynamic IP addresses not being allowed to host HTTP services because it's
>not in the consumer/client agreement anyway.

Of course these agreements are very much fluid.  Can't host a web site (at 
least using std port nos.) but P2P's OK because its a driver of consumer 
interest in broadband.

steve