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[ NNSquad ] Re: Blocking Comcast's Sandvine with simple firewall rules?


On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 23:06 -0400, bj wrote:
> 
> Monday, June 30, 2008, 8:38:13 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > I suspect I'm not the only person on this list to see this story on Slashdot
> > today.
> 
> > http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/30/0249249
> 
> 
> The return volley has already been fired--
> 
> http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/detecting-ssh-tunnels/
> 

If you actually read the paper (or even the blog post), that technology
isn't ready, and they can't actually identify the tunneled protocol yet.
As there are plenty of legitimate uses for SSH tunneling, I wouldn't
expect to see anything come of that research for at least six months to
a year.

Jeff 'foxxtrot' Craig