Checking routers
NEWS Assumed Closed Broadband and Ethernet
STATUS
Assumed Closed
CREATED
Oct 26, 04:08 PM (7¼ years ago)
AFFECTING
Broadband and Ethernet
STARTED
Oct 26, 03:58 PM (7¼ years ago)
REFERENCE
2309 / AA2309
INFORMATION
  • INITIAL
    7¼ years ago by Adrian

    There are occasionally issues that crop up in the internet and security industry, one of the latest being the use of millions of consumer devices to launch attacks on parts of the Internet.

    Naturally we do not want our customers to be unwittingly helping such attacks. We want to help, and advise customers if they have an issue with their equipment. We already did this some time ago with a system to check for open DNS resolvers (for which there is an opt-out on our control pages).

    However, we are concerned that anything more complex, such as a port/IP scan or default password check could be considered, in some cases, to be computer misuse, even though our intentions are good.

    We have now updated our standard terms to cover this (making what we would be doing "authorised" and hence legal if it was not already), and expect to be adding an opt-out for this on the control pages. Always bear in mind that anyone on the Internet can be doing the same to your network at any time, for malicious purposes, so ensuring firewalls and other security systems are in place is important.

    See http://aa.net.uk/legal-terms-services.html under Firewalls for more details

    P.S. obviously happy to discuss this on irc with people. RevK.