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Story: 'Storm Worm' slithers on
Doing Stuff at the ISP level is bad...
The problem is that people make decisions which have knock on effects. We'll fix x by doing y. That's fine except now the ISP has stopped y being used a small number of people who actually need to use it.
Case in point - a while back there was a MSSQL attack so dear old NTL decided the block the relevant port. The consequence was that I could no longer Admin sites from home using ODBC and the tools I had developed to the do the job.
NTL's reaction was it was for "the greater good" and you shouldn't be using your home account to do work anyway. Great!
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