Re:When Your Fiber ISP's 'Dumb' Device Screws Your TCP Sessions
by phantomread on Friday December 17, 2021 @02:08AM
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I like your idea and agree that implementing it would improve outcomes for customers. However, the ISP would be on the hook for additional customer support; it's a lot more involved to outfit your call center staff with playbooks for explaining exploited devices to an average customer than it is to toss in a semi-autonomous blocker. This does make things worse for "power users", but ISPs may have also found that said users are more willing to pay for special service agreements (a small business account for example).
If they say they have no idea what you're talking about, you get to tell them they're infected, so they actually fix it instead of typing their bank password into the infected box the next week because you automatically removed the "huh, internet's slow" that might have led them to investigate it otherwise.