----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Vixie" <vixie@vix.com>
now, though, there's an opportunity to do a marketing U-turn on this. cable and dsl providers in the USA can point to the national cybersecurity plan and say that to comply with it they have to put infected computers in cyberjail,
refundable after one year if there are no further incidents. then offer to remotely manage their host ("give me your root passwords, trust me!") for an annual fee of $(0.75*N). if the initial value of N were $500, you might be able to get the people who need this service to pay for it. it's worth a
Except that they don't HAVE to do this and so it's lying to customers and other ISP's will tell the customers the truth (that they don't have to pay these charges) and presto you are out of business. try? Paul, why don't you make this offer to all your relatives? Don't want the job? NEITHER DO WE!! (hoping the relatives comment will invoke the memories of exactly what is required to do this) We are ISP's, we got into this business because we know how to network not how to patch every OS on the planet. It's bad enough we have to filter email or customers go running off to another ISP but to provide security and deal with patching and then on top of that explain to parents how their 14 year old compromised their machine by running something she downloaded off the web so they really shouldn't sue us because someone got their CC and bank account numbers? Geo.