internet terrorism (A preview of whats to come if windows XP makes it to the home market)

[Technomage]

well,
telnet is nothing new......
However, I know what ports backorigfice likes to hang out on and those
are the ports that mindspring should have been looking for. However,
given
recent changes to the TOS of a lot of ISP's, they won't allow you to
portscan
anyone, and yet they do it to their users. 

I caught qwest.net doing this 4 days ago and called them on the carpet
about it... I reminded them that their terms of service operates both
ways.
if I am not allowed to portscan, etc., then neither are they....The
person 
on the far end objected to this, and I requested a supervisor.

I finally got far enough up the chain that someone actually took me
seriously (they checked with their legal dept and it turns out that
the way the TOS was written, it prevents them forom also doing the
same things that they prohibit their users from doing). so, no more 
portscans or unwanted connections from qwest.net....

However, on thursday afternoon at around 13:30, my circuit died for
no explainable reason. it took 4 hours and a lot of arguing with tech 
support before I found ut 2 things: a board in the dslam died, and 
someone made changes to my account without consulting me. because 
of the account changes, the tech support was prevented from initiating 
repairs. It took another round of calls before I got someone that
actually started looking at things and made a decision....

as of 15 minutes ago, my circuiot came back up live again (ITS ABOUT
DAMNED TIME).

is qwest really worth this agravation?
I am not so sure.

Technomage Hawke


Jason wrote:
> 
> One of the things discussed in this article is the scanning of peoples
> machines to see if they are infected with something.
> 
> Reminds me of an incident in which I received an email from MindSpring
> (at the time, ACTUALLY mindspring and not EarthStink) stating that I
> probably had such a thing on my machine. I wrote back, asking them
> what possibly made them think that.
> 
> Turns out, one of their criteria for determining a machine had been
> compromised was if it accepted telnet connections (!) because of a
> tendency for BackOrifice-using hackers to open a COMMAND.COM on port
> 23...
> 
> Technomage wrote:
> > I would suggest reading this ASAP.
> > http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm
> 
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