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could be ISPs trying to improve user security generally to prevent lots of their customers becoming DDOS zombies resulting in more contention & customer complai
by superjambo 9y ago
could be ISPs trying to improve user security generally to prevent lots of their customers becoming DDOS zombies resulting in more contention & customer complaints.
- arkades 9y agoNot a bad rationale, even if consumers don’t complain. DDOS sucks up a lot of bandwidth in aggregate, and this is a cheap way to reclaim some of it.
- gspetr 9y agoThat's highly unlikely as we've recently learned from "Internet Chemotherapy": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15946095 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15946095 ISPs are unfortunately the problem, not the solution.