Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes

Thu Oct 9 20:00:46 UTC 2003

At 03:42 PM 09/10/2003, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
>On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:01:35 EDT, "McBurnett, Jim" 
><jmcburnett at 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 