Jay T. Blocksom wrote:
> On 2 Apr 2005 03:58:20 -0800, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, "AvianFlux"
> <neomoniker@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Three) More secure, anonymous, dynamic IP's.
> >
> [snip]
>
> Ooops! And you were doing so well, up to this point.
>
> No. Dial-up is neither "more secure" (except perhaps in the
"security by
> obscurity" sense, which is always very poor security at best) or even
close to
> anonymous. And dynamic IP is not a distinguishing characteristic of
dial-up,
> since most "consumer broadband" (i.e., DSL and "cable modem")
services also
> use DHCP to assign dynamic IPs to their users.
>
> > I'm sticking with dial up. It's all I really need.
>
> That's fine. But don't kid yourself about what it does (and does
not)
> provide.
>
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> Jay T. Blocksom
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Dial-up dynamic IPs are more secure from directed hacks or DDoS. Where
broadband static/semi-static IPs that are fixed or change much less
frequently are more vulnerable. How often does DHCP assign new IPs to
their users? Once a day/a week/a month? Dial-up assigns a new IP with
each new logon to the ISP server.