Sounds good, but this list is not universal. Unfortunately
it is the 'inexperienced' user who will be most likely to have
set up their modem wrong, and they are probably less
represented on this list.

Of course the problem is not just JetStream based. While
people with dialup will not get high usage, they are leaving their machine
exposed and could still be set up as a relay. I think dial is probably
a bigger problem simply because there are more of them (and emails
are small)

I am sympathetic to John. While port scanning was not 'polite' I don't
think anyone would have paid attention without it.

The person I saw with FTP relay had deliberately opened up their FTP port
on their modem but forgotten to close it when finished, and had left a
default
password on their FTP server. An they were relativey experienced!

Notifying the ISPs may have helped, but without the port scan I suspect
most would have ignored. Again Telecom would be in a similar position
but I don't think Telecom has an easy way to contact all their customers
(they usually go through the media or the ISPs)

regards,

P
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Humphrey" <Craig.Humphrey@ChapmanTripp.com>
To: <adsl@lists.unixathome.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 11:54 AM
Subject: RE: Your Jetstream/ADSL connection is NOT secure

>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Picanmix [mailto:peterjet@xtra.co.nz]
> > Sent: Thursday, 20 June 2002 11:46 AM
> > To: zsolt.brandt@xtra.co.nz; adsl@lists.unixathome.org
> > Subject: Re: Your Jetstream/ADSL connection is NOT secure
>
> [snip snip]
>
> > I am unsure if this was the best way for John Burns to point this out
> > but as Aardvark points out, what choice did he have?
>
> [snip snip]
>
> How about just posting to this list? Or notifying Telecom, or some of the
> ISPs.... It's not hard.
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