Even you can be hacked

Thu Jun 10 22:25:40 UTC 2004

Andy Dills wrote:

> Keep in mind, this guy's ISP, like many (most?) ISPs would do, gave the
> guy a serious break on the first jaw-dropping bill.

Why do I have to get two and three copies of each of these?  I'm on
the list folks, if you send it to the list I'll get it.  I don't need
a copy to the list and Cc:'s until the end of time.

But since I am here, let me also ask that we kee in mind, that if this
guy is anyting like folks close to home here, his ISP requires him
to run a current version of IE, OE and NT of some kind.

He hooked that up, his ISP delivered a a successful attack on the
combination.

Now, let's stop the movie and identify the negligent parties and
the responsible parties.  No huge bill yet, no infected anybody
else yet.
> 
> But if you're the phone company, and a customer mysteriously has somebody
> break into their house month after month to call Hong Kong for a few
> hours, do you really think they're going to keep voiding those charges?
> Clearly the customer is negligent, even if another party is directly
> responsible.
> 
> Speaking for Xecunet, we offer both capped and metered billing packages,
> and we always make a point of offering customers a capped solution when
> something like this happens. If they decline, we make sure they understand
> that in the future they will be liable for 100% of the packets coming from
> their port, regardless of the circumstances. Maybe we should start putting
> this in writing, but it hasn't really been a problem.
> 
> Andy
> 
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> Andy Dills
> Xecunet, Inc.
> www.xecu.net
> 301-682-9972
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