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French ISP Offers to Block File-Sharing, Exposes Users to Attack

By pete_gallagher

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In response to the implementation of France's 'Hadopi' or three-strikes law, which targets illegal file sharers, a French ISP began offering its customers a service that would block file-sharing on their connections, but the software came with its own problems.

Orange was the ISP offering the service, for the small price of two Euros per month, and it was intended to allow users to 'control the activity of computers connected to your internet line' by blocking access to an unknown series of blacklisted sites and addresses.

Unfortunately though, according to Torrent Freak, the Windows-only software, as detailed by a techie named Bluetouff, communicated with a public server that still had the default username and password of admin/admin. Oops.

Torrent Freak that it was: Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on June 15, 2010 (boomark / email).

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