Winston.
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Originally Posted by Winston Smith
Hi All,
Apologies if this has been asked before but the thread has been going for some time now and although I have read it all it has been over the past few days so I may have missed this if it was asked before.
Firstly my thanks go to all those (Alexander/Popper/CaptJamie et al) who have been posting about this and more, been emailing MPs etc. They insipred me to email my MP, MEP and sign the petition.
As a personal user of Virgin I am seriously ticked off about this but due to my location am unable to swap to ADSL so will sign up with Relakks or similar.
However more importantly is this spyware going to be implemented on all BT lines or solely on residential/home use. I ask this as I work for a company who use BT for all our non head office broadband.
Moreover we provide the ability for our clients to connect to us for payroll and hr purposes. Although our client connections to the payroll/hr systems are via a minimum of SSL and preferably via L2TP/IPsec our staff still access the internet over clear channels.
They access Inland Revenue for the UK and elsewhere as well as other payroll related sites.
BT also provide the leased line that links our head office - is there reason for concern there?
Maybe I am being paranoid but BS7799 seems to be fairly strict and we have this certification and dont want to lose it.
Thanks
WinstonS
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your the first to mention it here so thats good, more questions, more avenues of discovery....
its a very good question, and while im not totally up on this part, so others can jump in at any time
given what the girl on TV said today, that the BT customer base could be from all over the map,and we are not sure who they might be!
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it appears they might have used the
equivalent of a cable super head end to plug that DPA kit into, for DSL so thats one of the RAS.
http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/RAS.htm
"...
When having problems, or it may just be curiosity, you may wish to know which RAS you connect via.
There are currently 11 RAS's in the UK which you may be routed through,
Birmingham,
Bletchley,
Ealing,
Edinburgh,
Ilford,
Kingston,
Manchester,
Reading Sheffield, Milton Keynes, Faraday.
Don't assume that you will be routed through the RAS nearest your home town, it doesnt work like that and its very possible that different DSLAMS in the same exchange will be routed to different RAS.
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that being the case , its looking far werse for BT as everything including stuff like your companies are pluged into that i think.