[privacy] Deploying Encryption to Protect Against ISPs

[Lawson, Joseph]

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 at netzero.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 4:15 PM
To: privacy at whitestar.linuxbox.org
Subject: [privacy] Deploying Encryption to Protect Against ISPs

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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

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