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Broadband ISPs Shouldn't Knock Down Firewalls
Alex Salkever, Business Week 2001-11-20

Citing finicky configuration problems, the major high-speed providers discourage their use -- a backward and dangerous policy

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Putting Liability in the Right Place RE:Broadband ISPs vs. the GreyMatter Challenged 2001-11-21
Joel Peach (jpeach[AT]traceris[DOT]com)
Sure, ISPs may not currently be accountable for the poor security at the end of their "pipes", and this is problematic for many of the reasons described by Ross Anderson (see "Why Information Security is Hard -- An Economic Perspective" http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/econ.pdf). If the finan...

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