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Re: dumb. Comcast pop-ups


From: der Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:09:40 -0400 (EDT)

A *much* smarter move on Comcast's part would be to simply null
route any suspected infected computer until it is cleaned up.
Absolutely.  Infected systems should be walled off *in toto* ([...])
until they're fixed.
And prevent their customers from some activity on the internet that
may be extremely urgent and important?

Yes.

One customer's idea of "extremely urgent and important" does not, or at
least should not, outweigh the danger to everyone else on the net from
failure to keep one's system from getting pwn3d.

Anyone depending on the public Internet for anything "extremely urgent
and important" is being grossly stupid anyway.

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