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On Thu, 15 May 2008 09:46:05 -0400 Jared Mauch <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 15, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > > I've found that using SSL for all my SMTP and IMAP transactions > > and not entering personally identifying information into non-SSL > > web pages greatly reduces the amount of harvesting results I see. > > > > As to Charter, I opt out by simply not purchasing anything from > > them. It seems to work far better than bothering with their silly > > cookie process. > > I think that's fine and all, but there are people where choice > doesn't exist. > > I would chose FIOS (or a fios-like service) for my home internet. > That choice does not exist. > > Verizon has not built that infrastructure in my state, nor does it > appear they have any plans to. > > Where choice does not exist, and there is no high-speed duopoly to > choose between, what would you do? Build your own infrastructure a > few miles at a cost of $2-50+/foot? > The other day, the Wall Street Journal ran a brief piece on VPN providers... The threat they had in mind was wireless hotspots, but any sort of on-link evil can be dealt with that way. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog
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