alt Hacker NewsThat's great until your device is weaponised against others (see: open HTTP proxies, open DNS resolvers, open SMTP servers, several billion IoT devices, and countless other examples)
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iamnothere • yesterday at 10:41 PM
Exactly, which is why we shouldn’t be allowing user “software installs” on any device, not just phones. The world would be a lot better if all tech were fully locked down, “freedom” be damned.
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Those issues could be diminished if ISPs actually handled abuse requests and shut down people's connections until they removed their malware.