The Great Cannon has been deployed again

Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again by Waterluvian on Friday December 06, 2019 @10:18AM (#21722486)

99.9% of devices are owned by someone who has absolutely zero technical ability to fulfill this responsibility. So I'd say the responsibility needs to be satisfied another way. Maybe it escalates to the ISP.

I mean, unless we start issuing Internet Licenses the way we do Driver's Licenses.

In the early 2000s my cable provider would outright shut off our Internet if my dumb brother or my dumb self got us all virused up.

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Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again by e2le on Friday December 06, 2019 @10:25AM (#21722552)

I agree, most don't have the technical ability to administrate their devices although I'm not sure if that excuses basic competence. I like the idea that an ISP would disable the connection of a subscriber however that would depend on how they define malicious activity.

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Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again by Waterluvian on Friday December 06, 2019 @10:26AM (#21722562)

If ISPs were basic utilities it would probably be a fairly safe responsibility to give them. But no, they're media corporations, so they have an inherent drive to abuse that power.

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Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again by kortilla on Friday December 06, 2019 @12:30PM (#21724000)

What you’re describing as “basic competence”, which is removing viruses from a PC in this case, would exclude 99% of users.

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