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 â 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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