Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes

[Mike Tancsa <mike () sentex net>]

At 03:42 PM 09/10/2003, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:01:35 EDT, "McBurnett, Jim" 
> <jmcburnett () msmgmt com>  said:
>
> > Can Broadband ISP's require a Linksys, dlink or other
> > broadband router without too many problems?
>
> So now instead of a misconfigured PC, you're going to have a misconfigured 
> router
> front-ending a misconfigured PC?

PCs of the MS variety by default are "misconfigured" and dangerous out of 
the box. (i.e. they dont have their patches installed and have questionable 
defaults).  Routers of the soho variety generally are not.  No its NOT 
perfect, but I would gladly take b) over a) any day of the week.

        ---Mike