re: Router spam

[Rei Shinozuka <shino@panix.com>]

that is a *horrifying* story.  i'll certainly join you in boycotting
belkin products while they maintain such a heinous policy and 
unapologetic tone.  the mind boggles when you consider that the maker
of a NIC chip could do something similar, or a video card maker could
paint pop-up ads right into the frame buffer, a keyboard maker could 
make the keyboard change "http:..." strings to other URLs.

i think the ghastliest line was that "The router would grab a random HTTP
connection every eight hours and redirect it to Belkin's (push) advertised 
web page."  you would really begin to suspect your devices were consipiring
against you--and in this case, you'd be right!!

the following  page has more info, including belkin's weak response: 
http://www.marco.org/content/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=36

just do a google search on "boycott belkin"

thanks for sharing, frank

-rei

----- Forwarded message from Frank Roberts - SOTL <sotl155360@earthlink.net> -----

Hi All

For a week or so now I have been starting up my laptop in the office and 
receiving a immediate pop-up spam add.

Havinf all filters turned on including security, popups and cookies I was 
going nuts trying to figure out how I had became infected with a url transfer 
spam program in my Linux box.

Thanks to a posting on another list I was able to ascertain that what is 
happening is that a router company has initiated an add campain of popups 
through their routers.
The URL that always appears is:
http://filter.belkin.com/setup.asp?SN=BEL13KK0&RP=21456&IP=192.168.0.2&FV=2.00.04

which is a Belkin Router add.

The following story explains the situation:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/07/1740205&tid=153

My solution to this issue is to post notices on all know BB that if you buy 
Belkin products expects spam from Belkin.

Thanks
Frank
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----- End forwarded message -----

-- 
Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
Ridgewood, New Jersey

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