Citation needed? I'm not a fan of residential proxies but these are pretty wild claims that aren't substantiated. Calling them a "national security threat" implies it is a threat to e.g., the continued existence of the United States. Is it really that? All of the activities described are already violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

> At the very least, major American ISPs (Comcast, AT&T) should detect clearly suspicious activity coming from customer IPs and warn them to scan their computers, check their TV apps, and find whatever is turning their internet into a proxy.

What are we saying? Really, what are we saying? We should turn domestic ISPs into domestic surveillance apparatuses to "detect clearly suspicious activity"? What is "clearly suspicious activity"? Section 230 is still law.

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cute_boi an hour ago | parent [-]

The router could also be a good place to display live TCP usage and last 30 days usage and other network activity. There should also be a service that can identify whether specific IP addresses belong to botnets or other malicious infrastructure. If there are any abnormal activity mobile app can notify the user.

Governments could even purchase residential proxies themselves and check whether they're being used for malicious activity.

It isn't that difficult, but I guess governments just aren't that interested.

	▲	saghm 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> The router could also be a good place to display live TCP usage and last 30 days usage and other network activity. There should also be a service that can identify whether specific IP addresses belong to botnets or other malicious infrastructure. > It isn't that difficult, but I guess governments just aren't that interested. I recently switched from my previous ISP because they randomly broke my ability to use my own router, and during the time when I had to default to using their own modem/router hardware before I could get the new ISP to come and set things up, I could barely even get a signal in my office upstairs (which had previously been connected via a mesh endpoint) because their router didn't expose any way for me to split 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz, and the router absolutely refused to let my devices connect via 2.4 GHz despite them having more than 90% packet loss due to the weak 5 GHz signal. Regardless of how "easy" it is, I don't trust ISPs not to screw it up somehow and probably cause a lot more concrete damage (even if the individual issues they cause are smaller in magnitude) than the theoretical concerns of "national security" that, as far as I can tell from reading this thread, have caused a total of like a few hours of downtime one day in a couple decades.