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That'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
by MertsA 5y ago
That'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.