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Re:A new cryptojacking tactic involving Wikipedia and downloaded movie...
on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @06:01AM (#18919815)
Machine translation from Chinese I suppose.
Re:No more XS4ALL is unthinkable
on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @05:07AM (#18919579)
>Xs4all offers a lot of technical advantages (e.g. being able to configure the ISP-side firewall to allow port 25 access).
Where I live there's no ISP-side firewall on any ISP, so that would not be an advantage at all.
Re:No more XS4ALL is unthinkable
on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @04:57AM (#18919531)
They have nodes in EFnet and QuakeNet and had one in IRCnet back in the day.
Doesn't strike me as odd, here in Spain most major ISPs had a stake in the national IRC network, back when latency mattered and IRC was a selling point.
Re:No more XS4ALL is unthinkable
on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @04:54AM (#18919516)
How weasily-worded:
>They were bought in '98 by the former state-owned KPN
As if they couldn't avoid it. The owners of XS4ALL sold the business to KPN. They knew what KPN was going to do with it (dismantle all the "cool" stuff) and didn't care, they just wanted their cash.