zuzu on 21 Oct 2007 00:30:15 -0000


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[PLUG] Comcast spoofs on network to block P2P

  • From: zuzu <sean.zuzu@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: [PLUG] Comcast spoofs on network to block P2P
  • Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:30:11 -0400
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is this fraud?  identity theft?

isn't this how China operates its national firewall? (spoofed RST packets)


http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/04/2014236
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/19/comcast-actively-blo.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gxRiQSVfgK4sLbVRE_X4MOlM9q0AD8SCASPG0

Comcast actively blocks P2P traffic
Posted by Xeni Jardin, October 19, 2007 9:03 AM
Farhad Manjoo of Salon says,

    The AP has a good scoop today. It found that Comcast directly
intervenes in communication between two peers on a P2P network,
closing down connections on BitTorrent, Gnutella and other systems.

Snip from that AP story:

    Comcast's technology kicks in, though not consistently, when one
BitTorrent user attempts to share a complete file with another user.
Each PC gets a message invisible to the user that looks like it comes
from the other computer, telling it to stop communicating. But neither
message originated from the other computer รข it comes from Comcast. If
it were a telephone conversation, it would be like the operator
breaking into the conversation, telling each talker in the voice of
the other: "Sorry, I have to hang up. Good bye."

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