On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 03:21:21PM +0200, Marco Hogewoning wrote:
(Devil???s advocate)
well, important questions.
Most of these T&C were drafted in an era when the Internet was mostly ???entertainment???. Are these still proportional when I even can???t pay my taxes without access to the Internet?
or operate your heating or lock your front door ...
Oh and if your hacked toaster was damaging my interwebs, I???d *want* your ISP to pull the plug.
Agree, but it would be nice if you can just disconnect my toaster and leave my bank account, air conditioning and wine fridge in a working state :)
Welcome to the "assisted" Internet experience! So, could be a bit more critical about the quality and quantity of "insecure devices"? It isn't that large populations of not-so-well reputed OSes being abused for "something" were a new phenomenon. Admitted, numbers were smaller those days, but so was the infrastructure. Not neglecting the issue, but sceptical of knee-jerk policy making and too loud calls for regulations that remind me of the constrained (from the customers perspective) telco networks of 30+ years ago. Late victories ... -Peter