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I feel like home router makers could intervene here and let their owners know when they’ve likely been hacked. Maybe even a regulation type deal?
by toxik 5y ago
I feel like home router makers could intervene here and let their owners know when they’ve likely been hacked. Maybe even a regulation type deal?
- logifail 5y ago> home router makers could intervene here and let their owners know when they’ve likely been hacked How? A couple of years ago I had an email from our ISP telling me that "common port X is open on your router" (forwarded to a box exactly as I set it up) and asking if I could "fix the problem". Except it wasn't a mistake or a configuration error, I deliberately set it up that way.
- foxfluff 5y agoI don't see how this would be feasible without giving them a backdoor to snoop around in my home network. No thanks.
- MertsA 5y agoThat's never going to work but it very well could lead to ISPs very strongly herding customers to use their own managed routers. They already push for that for customer support purposes, using this to start automatically snooping on "malicious" traffic within a customer's network would be a big step in the wrong direction. You could make a compromise here and require ISPs and network vendors to support a common notification protocol to identify devices sourcing malicious traffic. Most ISPs already have systems in place to send notification messages to customers that are sending botnet traffic. You could mandate it for all of them and let the customer decide if they want their router configured to automatically block a device they were notified about or just record the MAC address and send the ISP a URL the user can visit to view the device sending the traffic. You could make it friendly to the unwashed masses and still put detection on the ISPs and not give them privileged access inside every customer's network.