Re: breaking news tools, for an ever changing community

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 20:07:13 BST, n3td3v said:

> by the actual account owner tries to login. think of it as a user friendly
> account firewall, easily setup by kids and the elderly, because yahoo would
> detect the isp trends of the actual account user, and all the user needs to
> do is select yes or no to setup rules based on isp information yahoo
> displays to them via a web interface. its as simple as 'yahoo detects you're
> using aol, set your account to accept aol only access to this account?',
> 'add a new isp?', 'delete this isp?', 'make aol your default isp for this
> account?' or if the user is too confused, yahoo can have a 'turn off isp
> recognition for this account?'

Two words:   Open Proxies.  You configure "AOL Protection" because you're on
AOL and I'm on BT, and the first open proxy I can find in AOL space will
busticate the scheme quite well and proper.

35 million AOL users.  I'm sure there's still WinGate's out there. :)

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