[HECnet] Verizon Security! Fwd: Security notice

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Thu Jul 30 13:50:58 PDT 2020



> On Jul 30, 2020, at 2:21 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
> 
> On 7/30/20 2:15 PM, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
>> Verizon is tightening the screw. I think I will give up now. It was explained to me over a telephone call to their security department that I cannot have any of the following ports open at home.
>> 80
>> 81
>> 554
>> 8xxx
>> 9xxx
> 
>  Wow.  Time for a real net connection.
> 
>             -Dave

Hm.  I have Comcast, which is not a star either, but they have given me no trouble.  They do filter some things so they never get to me, but for example port 80 isn't an issue at all.  That's how you can get to the HECnet map, after all.

	paul





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