FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help

Thu Jun 14 15:20:25 UTC 2007

On Jun 14, 2007, at 8:03 AM, Jim Popovitch wrote:

>
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 07:41 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be more appropriate if the FBI told people the phone
>> number to Micr0$0ft?
>
> It would lighten the load on the ISPs, but would it really achieve
> anything worthwhile?
>
> -Jim P.

It would place more of the burden on the source of the problem.
Hopefully, it would also allow Micr0$0ft to assist the people
unfortunate enough to have purchased their products overcome
the problems created by that decision, but, that might be asking
too much.

Owen