Quicky

[kait-the-great.livejournal.com]

Most of the general public has interesting names for what my office calls the "tower"... and I was not immune before I leveled up to tech support - when I was but a little user myself, someone got me started calling it the CPU and I had to be taught otherwise. From others I'd heard "hard drive." I usually don't hold this against anyone (possible weakness of mine).

But yesterday was the first time I had heard it called "modem". Luckily this was in person so pointing helped me muddle it out.

Ask your ISP to filter?

[alexanderc.livejournal.com]

Because of today's DDoS against Twitter (and supposedly Facebook) there was an article on MSNBC about avoiding turning your system(s) into bots on a botnet.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3033077/ns/technology_and_science-security

I don't know about the rest of you but with very few exceptions I don't like the idea of handing off traffic monitoring and filtering to the ISP. I'd rather keep control over that myself since it lets me be most flexible.

I know they're talking about generic home users but it still seems wrong to me (although most home users aren't smart enough to keep their systems secure so they probably do need the help).

Thoughts?