Re: Barracuda backdoor

[bk <chort0 () gmail com>]

> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 3:17 AM, bk <chort0 () gmail com> wrote:
> On Apr 28, 2011, at 3:09 AM, Tõnu Samuel wrote:
>
> > One day their Barracuda product stopped working.
> >
> > After investigating problem it came out that Barracuda reseller and
> > Barracuda itself have some misunderstandings and because of this
> > Barracuda not only disabled all kind of subscription services
>
> You're unsubstantiated claims don't bare repeating.  I will however point out that many vendors disable some portion 
> of functionality when subscription or support payments lapse.  This is widely done in the industry and a surprise to 
> no one.
>
> --
> chort
> _______________________________________________

On Apr 28, 2011, at 7:20 PM, Cal Leeming wrote:

> Name ten.

For starters, every anti-spam company ever.  I should know, I've worked for half of them.  At the very least you cannot 
get upgrades or patches of any kind.  Most of them disable anti-spam updates, all of them disable anti-virus updates, 
and some even disable anti-spam scanning entirely.  The anti-spam SaaS vendors I know of will disable accepting your 
mail after a grace period if you haven't moved your MX records.

Hmm, let's see.  Firewall vendors won't let you apply updates, some of them cripple VPN functionality when your license 
has expired... really, do we need to go on?  There's a long precedent for products going into a degraded mode if your 
subscription or license expires.

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chort


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