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Re: [privacy] Deploying Encryption to Protect Against ISPs
From: "Lawson, Joseph" <jsl () pqa com>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 16:56:54 -0500
FTA: "In a few short weeks, three companies managed to destroy the argument that 'Net neutrality is a theoretical issue by demonstrating how it can go wrong - censoring rock bands, censoring political advocacy, attacking peer-to-peer protocols." Isn't the author confusing, as many do, Net Neutrailty with QOS. As I understand it, net neutraility just means that packets will get delivered reguardless of source or destination without degredation of service. QOS is where they are getting into trouble. Isn't it well known that many providers do not let certain services on their network? If you want full internet without their wacky QOS junk, pay for a real ISP. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:fergdawg () netzero net] Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 4:15 PM To: privacy () whitestar linuxbox org Subject: [privacy] Deploying Encryption to Protect Against ISPs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Commentary via NetworkWorld. [snip] An old cipherpunk saying goes, "There's power in numbers - large prime numbers." Encryption is a very powerful tool that's used by almost all companies to secure data in transit over untrusted networks. Up to now we've used encryption to protect against criminal elements, but what about using it to protect our data from service providers? Encryption can shield our data from overzealous "traffic management," which is what some providers are calling it when they send a TCP RST to both ends of traffic that they don't like. I call that denial of service. [snip] More: http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2007/110607antonopoulos.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHMNlcq1pz9mNUZTMRAq63AKCxFUpMI4rUOE0c4Z22ffgobbigWgCfTuwz r3gLVCSgxGjYXeUzaB5CZic= =R7DR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
Current thread:
- [privacy] Deploying Encryption to Protect Against ISPs Paul Ferguson (Nov 06)
- Re: [privacy] Deploying Encryption to Protect Against ISPs Lawson, Joseph (Nov 06)
- Re: [privacy] Deploying Encryption to Protect Against ISPs Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 06)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: [privacy] Deploying Encryption to Protect Against ISPs Paul Ferguson (Nov 06)
- Re: [privacy] Deploying Encryption to Protect Against ISPs John Payne (Nov 06)
- Re: [privacy] Deploying Encryption to Protect Against ISPs Lawson, Joseph (Nov 06)