On Wednesday 07 December 2005 19:44, Sanket Medhi wrote:
That is true in a sense, because all internet traffic including malicious attacks are handled by the ISP servers themselves. You dont have to worry about anyone accessing your machine from the outside world.
May be the ISPs should just drop all incoming and outgoing packets? People like you would LOVE that kind of security, wouldn't you? A truely "cacker proof internet" !
Though, it might be necessary for some people like us to have the previlege to use extra benefits than just surfing.
"Extra benefits"? Dude do you work for some ISP esp. Sify? :O Those "extra benefits" are a part and parcel of the internet. Everyone should have them. You should be ashamed of your statements. You are a part of a GNU / Linux User group whose core ideology is based on "freedom". But you actually subscribe and justify unjust and unreasonable restrictions put by Sify and other service providers. FSF / GNU / Linux / OSS are all about freedom. Free as in "un-restricted, uninhibited and unlimited". Not Free as in monetory terms!
Don't get me started on unfair trade practices and monopolies of ISPs or the Government. I have a bad habit to keep ranting for a looong time :|
P.S.: I apologize for sounding harsh.
-- Dinesh A. Joshi