Hi All You are certainly correct but you need to take that thought a bit futher.
What if this is not the ONLY method of extraneous control that is built into the product? What is hackers find out how to control your routers by this method. What if you use such products and this causes a loss of control of a critical systen? What if this irresponsibility causes major loss? Frank On Tuesday 24 February 2004 08:54 am, Rei Shinozuka wrote: > that is a *horrifying* story. i'll certainly join you in boycotting > belkin products while they maintain such a heinous policy and > unapologetic tone. the mind boggles when you consider that the maker > of a NIC chip could do something similar, or a video card maker could > paint pop-up ads right into the frame buffer, a keyboard maker could > make the keyboard change "http:..." strings to other URLs. > > i think the ghastliest line was that "The router would grab a random HTTP > connection every eight hours and redirect it to Belkin's (push) advertised > web page." you would really begin to suspect your devices were consipiring > against you--and in this case, you'd be right!! > > the following page has more info, including belkin's weak response: > http://www.marco.org/content/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=36 > > just do a google search on "boycott belkin" > > thanks for sharing, frank > > -rei > > ----- Forwarded message from Frank Roberts - SOTL > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > Hi All > > For a week or so now I have been starting up my laptop in the office and > receiving a immediate pop-up spam add. > > Havinf all filters turned on including security, popups and cookies I was > going nuts trying to figure out how I had became infected with a url > transfer spam program in my Linux box. > > Thanks to a posting on another list I was able to ascertain that what is > happening is that a router company has initiated an add campain of popups > through their routers. > The URL that always appears is: > http://filter.belkin.com/setup.asp?SN=BEL13KK0&RP=21456&IP=192.168.0.2&FV=2 >.00.04 > > which is a Belkin Router add. > > The following story explains the situation: > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/07/1740205&tid=153 > > My solution to this issue is to post notices on all know BB that if you buy > Belkin products expects spam from Belkin. > > Thanks > Frank > - > > ----- End forwarded message ----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
