Saturday, November 8, 2003
Is Your Router Spamming You?
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 08:00 AM
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/33858.html
"The marketing geniuses at Belkin, the consumer networking vendor, have dreamed up a new form of spam - ads served to your desktop, by way of its wireless router."
You can read the whole sordid thread at Google Groups, one an apology from Eric at Belkin.
Huh? :confused totally: "We unintentionally overlooked the effect this feature would have. We never intended to compromise the trust of our customers, and we never intend to do so in the future." How could you unintentionally overlook the effect of the feature? The intended effect was to redirect their users to a sales pitch by Belkin. Either they are colossally stupid or just poor liars. I'll not be buying any Belkin hardware anytime soon. :evil: I hope the morons that proposed and approved of this idea are collecting unemployment by now.
"The marketing geniuses at Belkin, the consumer networking vendor, have dreamed up a new form of spam - ads served to your desktop, by way of its wireless router."
You can read the whole sordid thread at Google Groups, one an apology from Eric at Belkin.
Quote: We at Belkin apologize for the recent trouble our customers have experienced with the wireless router/browser redirect issue. We unintentionally overlooked the effect this feature would have. We never intended to compromise the trust of our customers, and we never intend to do so in the future.
We are taking responsibility for this, and we will be offering firmware fixes early next week. We do not have exact details yet as we are still working on them, and will continue to work on them over the weekend. What we can tell you now is that each Router's firmware that incorporates Parental Control as an option will be changed.
We are taking responsibility for this, and we will be offering firmware fixes early next week. We do not have exact details yet as we are still working on them, and will continue to work on them over the weekend. What we can tell you now is that each Router's firmware that incorporates Parental Control as an option will be changed.
Huh? :confused totally: "We unintentionally overlooked the effect this feature would have. We never intended to compromise the trust of our customers, and we never intend to do so in the future." How could you unintentionally overlook the effect of the feature? The intended effect was to redirect their users to a sales pitch by Belkin. Either they are colossally stupid or just poor liars. I'll not be buying any Belkin hardware anytime soon. :evil: I hope the morons that proposed and approved of this idea are collecting unemployment by now.
