COMCAST Info

[Aloha_Shooter]

Explain "security concern"

A wifi connection exists that we have no control over exists through a piece of equipment which is intimately tied to our own home network and numerous devices that probably have PII and other sensitive information. Are you ABSOLUTELY certain there's no way for someone to tunnel in from the public to the private network? Willing to indemnify every single Comcast customer for potential losses from such an event?

When it was a non-broadcasting cable modem, I and only I determined access from the modem to my equipment. I can't say that now -- if you don't think that's a security concern, I have some ocean front property in Arizona I'd like to talk to you about ...

[Skywalker]

Exactly. pg2............ http://www.computerworld.com/article/2476444/mobile-security-comcast-xfinity-wifi-just-say-no.html

A wifi connection exists that we have no control over exists through a piece of equipment which is intimately tied to our own home network and numerous devices that probably have PII and other sensitive information. Are you ABSOLUTELY certain there's no way for someone to tunnel in from the public to the private network? Willing to indemnify every single Comcast customer for potential losses from such an event?

When it was a non-broadcasting cable modem, I and only I determined access from the modem to my equipment. I can't say that now -- if you don't think that's a security concern, I have some ocean front property in Arizona I'd like to talk to you about ...

[USMC88-93]

I guess my only reply is those with that kind of deeply held concern are better served by purchasing their own modem and router as the only thing that the cable company would then have control of is the boot file on the router to place the device in the correct speed tier for the account.

I am not here to defend Comcast nor do I want to color them anything other than the giant corporate entity they are, I am just suggesting that there is nothing sinister in their motives. And those smart enough the realize on some root base level there might be some security concern are also those that protect themselves from those concerns. (purchase, set up, and maintain their own devices and access to them).