Xfi Advances Security (comcast)

Mon Sep 13 16:02:09 UTC 2021

> On Sep 13, 2021, at 07:56 , Livingood, Jason via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org> wrote:
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> On 9/10/21, 10:58, "NANOG on behalf of Chris Boyd" <nanog-bounces+jason_livingood=cable.comcast.com at nanog.org on behalf of cboyd at gizmopartners.com> wrote:
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>> Why is Comcast blocking things? That seems like it’s out of scope for an ISP.
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> For Internet access, sure. But ISPs also have value added protection services and this part of an optional content filtering service that is integrated into the leased Comcast gateways. Users can turn on things like parental controls, including time limit and time-of-day boundaries for certain devices (e.g. cut off kid's game console Internet access at midnight on school nights). See https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/using-xfinity-xfi-advanced-security
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> Jason
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Yes, but it’s tragically opt-out instead of opt-in as it should be. That means that anyone whose site happens to get miscategorized by them gets the added costs of dealing with the user complaints instead of Comcast having to bear the costs of their error.

It’s a classic example of the toxic polluter business model. Do something stupid while making sure that the costs of your errors fall on someone else.

Owen