Re: Router spam

2004-02-24 Thread Frank Roberts - SOTL
NO ENGINEERING certificate is required in the US to design routers or associated devices or for that matter any form of internet equipment. Frank On Tuesday 24 February 2004 01:13 pm, John T. Williams wrote: > What if someone hacks belkin's web server and puts an browser exploit on > the page wh

Re: Router spam

2004-02-24 Thread John T. Williams
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 de

Re: Router spam

2004-02-24 Thread John T. Williams
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 de

Re: Router spam

2004-02-24 Thread Frank Roberts - SOTL
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

re: Router spam

2004-02-24 Thread Rei Shinozuka
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

Router spam

2004-02-24 Thread Frank Roberts - SOTL
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 Linu