No... I may as well explain what happened, to put it into context. I was about 19 at the time, and sort of naive. I was trying to figure out why the local coffee shop needed to pay so much money for their internet service. One of the recurring costs was support for their router, which seemed kind of crazy to me at the time (being a tech geek).
This was after I had just discovered and fixed a security vulnerability in that router --- I had brought my girlfriend's MacBook to the shop, and noticed I could connect to their payment processing computer (due to the router being misconfigured). That computer had a text file filled with hundreds of full plaintext credit card numbers.
So anyway, I went to the owner and put in some time to help him fix this, and that's how I wound up in a position to question "why the heck does this router cost so much per month?"
I was toying with the idea of just replacing the whole thing with an inexpensive Linksys or something. (I realize how bad of an idea it is now --- but hey, I was 19.) So I wound up on the phone with one of the sales guys from the router company. He started rattling off (good) justifications for their router: per-customer bandwidth limiting, etc. Among those reasons was "and after Sept 11th, coffee shops are required to comply with <some impressive-sounding regulation name>, which requires them to keep logs of which computers are using their internet, and when".
This was after I had just discovered and fixed a security vulnerability in that router --- I had brought my girlfriend's MacBook to the shop, and noticed I could connect to their payment processing computer (due to the router being misconfigured). That computer had a text file filled with hundreds of full plaintext credit card numbers.
So anyway, I went to the owner and put in some time to help him fix this, and that's how I wound up in a position to question "why the heck does this router cost so much per month?"
I was toying with the idea of just replacing the whole thing with an inexpensive Linksys or something. (I realize how bad of an idea it is now --- but hey, I was 19.) So I wound up on the phone with one of the sales guys from the router company. He started rattling off (good) justifications for their router: per-customer bandwidth limiting, etc. Among those reasons was "and after Sept 11th, coffee shops are required to comply with <some impressive-sounding regulation name>, which requires them to keep logs of which computers are using their internet, and when".
I don't remember anything beyond that, sorry.