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Is it possible that the subscription came with a modem lended by the company which the customer had to send back to cancel their subscription? I think nowadays
by lgeorget 3y ago
Is it possible that the subscription came with a modem lended by the company which the customer had to send back to cancel their subscription? I think nowadays in the US people tend to buy their router (people more knowledgeable than me, please correct me) but in France for instance, one usually rents their router from their ISP as part of their subscription. Maybe it Dial-up World used to do the same in 1999?
- brazzy 3y agoHm, interesting idea. And then they might not have done user authentication at all. Also an interestingly bad practice, plausible, but non obvious and not in any way hinted at by the article.
- omgmajk 3y agoFrom the post: > one of the aggrieved chose to show their displeasure by posting the list of all Dialup World user accounts online – along with every password in clear text.
- relaxing 3y agoNo, subscription hardware was not done anywhere to my knowledge. You bought your modem at a local store like CompUSA or through a mail order catalog. Actually finding a service to dial in to was left as an exercise to the user. (Hence why AOL famously mailed out floppies (and later CDs) to every household in America on a regular basis.)