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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads
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 [email protected] "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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