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The government is currently considering a plan to ban users that are caught illegally downloading copyrighted content. ISPs will have to monitor and ultimately terminate the customer’s internet access if they are found to be abusing copyright.
The BBC reports that “UK net firms are resisting government suggestions that they should do more to monitor what customers do online”.
Now for some Friday humour that complements this story nicely…
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February 20th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Maybe somebody should take you off the internet.
Your posts are repetative, boring and downright ignorant. If you knew anything about *security* you wouldn’t publicise websites being “compromised” without knowing how they did it. It just reinforces the fact that you don’t know what you’re talking about because you’d know that no website is 100% secure and that your scare tatics are only to further your company and your pretty pathetic ego.
February 21st, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Thanks for your comment.
Who says we don’t know how it was exploited or that we don’t have plans in place to find out? Who says we aren’t working on a proper white paper to discuss this in detail? If we knew and published how it was done, without first being able to confirm the hole had been duly closed, then that would be criminal. The only official confirmation we have is that the incident is still under investigation by the appropriate authorities.
Most security websites don’t give the kind of detail about security incidents as you’re suggesting should be here. Do you look at any blogs like Exploit Preventions Labs, Sunbelt Security Blog, Schneier on Security, etc? Sure, when they have the full facts they will present all the evidence, but most of the time they report what they know and can confirm.
We placed this into the public domain to inform our existing customer base that they may have been put at risk if they had visited the FETA website in the few weeks since the new website went live. No one else, especially the people involved with the compromised websites were up for telling the public.
We agree with your comment that no website is 100% secure, but it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be doing our very best to inform people to the changing threats of the Internet and how they can best protect themselves from malicious and compromised websites.
There is always a simple solution to websites that people find boring! Unsubscribe from their newsfeed or don’t revisit the website. We believe this is a strategy that could work well for you in the future.
February 21st, 2008 at 2:58 pm
For a moment there we thought you were a security expert yourself…. and then we spotted you had used an AOL email address, posting a comment from a Demon Internet connection.
Bang goes any credibility you may have thought you had! Case closed for us.