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Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads
From: Ross Vandegrift <ross () kallisti us>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:57:59 -0400
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 04:38:11PM -0400, Clinton Popovich wrote:
Its not that they are not permitted to control network traffic, but they are impersonating the other server and I have a feeling there are a few laws that could fall under. Like fraud for one.
Not to defend Comcast, but I think that this is a pretty far-fetched idea. Firewalls that send RSTs, nearly every IDP device, SYN-proxy DDoS mitigation are just a few of the widely deployed technologies that depend on the exact same forgeries. It's all more-or-less the same principle of doing just enough forgery to be able to interrupt a flow. If you really want around that, IPSec is always there for ya. -- Ross Vandegrift ross () kallisti us "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell." --St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37
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- Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads, (continued)
- Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads Patrick W. Gilmore (Oct 19)
- RE: Comcast blocking p2p uploads Scott Berkman (Oct 19)
- Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads Justin M. Streiner (Oct 19)
- Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads Randy Bush (Oct 19)
- Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads Adrian Chadd (Oct 19)
- Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads Patrick W. Gilmore (Oct 20)
- Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads Patrick W. Gilmore (Oct 19)
- Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads Mark Owen (Oct 19)
- Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads John C. A. Bambenek (Oct 19)
- Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads Mark Owen (Oct 19)
- RE: Comcast blocking p2p uploads Clinton Popovich (Oct 19)
- Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads Ross Vandegrift (Oct 19)
- Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads Patrick Giagnocavo (Oct 19)
- [admin] Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads Martin Hannigan (Oct 19)
- Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads Sean Figgins (Oct 19)
- Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads Patrick Giagnocavo (Oct 19)
- RE: Comcast blocking p2p uploads Frank Bulk (Oct 19)
- Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads Sean Figgins (Oct 19)
- Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads John C. A. Bambenek (Oct 19)
- Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads Patrick W. Gilmore (Oct 20)
- Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads John C. A. Bambenek (Oct 20)
- Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads Justin M. Streiner (Oct 19)