[ NNSquad ] Re: Comcast using Sandvine to Interfere with P2P

[Barry Gold <bgold@matrix-consultants.com>]

> Barry Gold wrote:
> > And the protocol documents (RFCs 791 & 793) specify what these packet 
> > headers and bits are for, and Comcast is in violation of those 
> > protocols. 

Phil Karn wrote:
> So don't get mad, get even. This is *exactly* the problem (packet spoofing) that
> IPSEC was designed to solve.
>
> I fully expect IPSEC to be built into an upcoming copy of Azureus or other
> popular Bit Torrent client.

I love it!  Comcast and other ISPs won't be able to see into the IP 
traffic at all, not even to get the port number or even distinguish 
control fields like SYN, FIN, and RST.  They will be reduced to perhaps 
dropping some proportion of encrypted traffic, with no way of knowing if 
they are degrading somebody's BitTorrent or GNUtella traffic or the US 
Military shipping encrypted Top Secret data.

And they will have brought it on themselves.  Life is sweet sometimes.

Besides, anything that drives people to encrypt their net traffic is a 
good thing, IMNSHO.