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Change your DNS servers?


503 is "Service unavailable" where the service is related to the web server, not DNS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#5xx_...


Yes, but this is probably served by the ISP's servers, into which traffic was redirected by the ISP's dishonest DNS.

This is much easier to implement than fully intercepting every HTTP connection, and this is what most ISPs go with.


Would that work? Sky Broadband Shield is a service which blocks adult content (and for some bizarre reason archive.org?) Would changing your DNS server make a difference? Your ISP should still be aware of what IP the content is coming from.


They actually override all DNS lookups if I remember rightly. It's not my connection, so I can't change that fact - I just think it's a naughty thing to do.

But it's a bit off topic!


I agree with most people that calling to reset password should be a service that can be entirely disabled, or at least require 2FA. But think about this. All of this could have been avoided if they had the simple policy of calling you back. The only thing you would have to do as a user, would be to keep your number up-to-date.

Of course this also requires that you should never be able to add a number using the phone though, but this makes sense, since they can just say: "To do that you just have to sign in and click on..."


Cool. Now do a port of the latest OpenSSL to A500, and find a way to get good randomness. That would be something :P


Well, fresh water would hurt a lot more than salt water ;)


Why ?


Because the osmotic difference between sea water and your bodily fluids is much lower than with fresh water.


Odd - It's been a long time since I've gone swimming in salt water, but I've never had any problems opening my eyes in fresh water.


No! It's the companies who buys and USE this crap, even when they are configuring the devices and see that they cannot protect them, that needs to be held accountable.

It's like buying a bus with broken brakes, and still use it as public transportation. Nothing wrong with buying the bus.


Its like a company selling a bus with broken brakes, not telling the customer it is broken and then the customer either knowingly or unknowingly use it after working that out for themselves.


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