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If you don't secure your own computer, and end up being used in an attack on someone else, you deserve to be cut off from whatever broadband ISP gives you bandwidth until you deal with your issues.
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sorry xyad, but i have to respectfully disagree. i value your advice and don't wish to piss you off, but the way i see it, if you want something bad enough from the customer and the customer is ignorant, then you should provide it or else eat the cost yourself. if you want to stop all the hackers from messing with your site, then protect your own site and don't expect that others should step in and take measures to protect your site. (and when I say you should provide "it", I mean that the ISP provider or the website being attached should provide their own security, not that each individual user should take measures to protect every site)
if an ISP demands their customers to run a firewall and states so up front as a condition to the origianl ISP agreement, then yes, i agree that they should run a firewall. (the ISP providers may already do this, I don't know. if so, then yes, I agree with you that each customer should run a firewall to comply with the agreement. But my DSL provider has never said anythign about running one and I don't feel that I have any duty to do so.)
But if you just assume the average user knows what a firewall is and that they should run one, then don't complain when they don't do so. (and I highly doubt the average subscriber even knows what a firewall is, yet alone, runs one. I think the number of people that subscirbe to AOL backs me up on that.)
(sorry, I don't mean to highjack this thread into an arguement about the policies of high-speed ISP providers, but the conversation kinda just meandered that towards that topic.)
Oh BTW, I reached 1000 posts now. Yippeee! (how time flies. it only seems like it was a few months ago that I logged onto here for the first time to get LawyerRon's advice on whether to stick out law school or to go into the network industry, but it's really been about two and half years.)