Re: Barracuda backdoor

[Cal Leeming <cal () foxwhisper co uk>]

Everything you have mentioned there are when you have 'leased' a product, so
if the license runs out, of course it's going to terminate those 'leased'
services.

However, I was under the assumption that the OP had purchased the Barracuda
outright from a reseller, and the license was just a piracy check? Am I
mistaken OP??

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 3:30 AM, bk <chort0 () gmail com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> chort
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