On 2003-11-26 at 10:29:53+0100 Arjan van de Ven arjanv@redhat.com wrote:
the sysadmins of those [broken] sites need to upgrade their firmware to be compliant with internet standards
Unfortunately, there's only one thing that can make that happen universally, and it hasn't happened yet. :(
Until then, most sites that are stupid enough to implement broken firewalls in the first place will smugly ignore anyone who tries to tell them that their firewalls are broken, thinking that they've just deflected a "security hack" by someone trying to convince them to "let their guard down". Been there; done that.