What if someone hacks belkin's web server and puts an browser exploit on the page which causes the computer to be infected with a virus maybe [EMAIL PROTECTED] DOSing belkin and sco?
This is a clear ethics violation by the rules taught in my Computer Professionalism class. The Engineers who designed and built it should be required to re-qualify for their engineering certification, making special point to re-read the ethics qualifications. If I designed a elevator that sometimes took you to the floor I wanted rather then the one you wanted, I'd still be in jail. On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 09:57, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote: > 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 - 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
