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> I really hope ISP naming and shaming takes over, so we can make DDoS a little bit more difficult. I think naming and shaming would have little impact and wha
by mtbcoder 10y ago
> I really hope ISP naming and shaming takes over, so we can make DDoS a little bit more difficult.
I think naming and shaming would have little impact and whatever impact it did have would be short lived. Consumers tend to have short attention spans and zero long term memory. Take the banking/finance industry for example, were egregious, predatory and at times criminal tactics are par for the course. Banking institutions are named and shamed all the time, yet the Bank of Americas, Wells Fargos and Goldman Sachs of the world still exist.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoFrom what I hear about the US, many people there don't even have any alternative ISP to change to... Also changing a service provider often can be a huge inconvenience for one. For instance, if I were to learn today that my ISP makes DDoS very easy and doesn't care about the issue, I'd have a choice between one or two random small providers I don't know, and two big telecom operators that are already on my "do no ISP-related business with" list due to their annoying telemarketing.
- Bartweiss 10y agoIt's also fairly standard to suffer 1-2 weeks of outages when changing ISP's, which is somewhere between unwelcome and prohibitive for a lot of people. Worse, even places with "competitive" markets often have only one provider giving decent speeds - 1-5 Mbps maximum is not a realistic option for a lot of uses.
- Chris2048 10y agoThe banking industry is heavily regulated, and getting more so. Described criminal tactics as being "par for the course" is not true. Also, regular consumers have little recourse against large banks for many reasons (e.g many consumers have little direct contact or influence with investment banks), which is who it is up to governments and regulators. ISPs are similar in some ways, but are way more consumer controlled.