[privacy] Deploying Encryption to Protect Against ISPs

[Paul Ferguson]

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- -- "Lawson, Joseph" <jsl at pqa.com> wrote:

>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.

A couple of minor issues.

Sure, the author may indeed be confusing QoS and Net Neutrality,
however, but given the current imbroglio with telcos providing
wholesale access to  law enforcement without proper judicial
oversight, there is little difference in the reasoning here. :-)

Also, as someone who has studied (and written on) QoS issues in
depth, this _does_ involve Net Neutrality issues insofar as ISPs
surreptitiously mucking around with the traffic stream, but not
really with regards to encryption (and I'm pretty sure encryption
would not help much here at all, since we are talking about TCP/IP
port-level services -- see pervious paragraph, however).

:-)

Ref:

>http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2007/110607antonopoulos.html

- - ferg

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