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Safe and Insecure?
JoeCotellese writes "Can making your network insecure actually improve your security? That's the question asked in this story running in Salon. The author makes the case that by 'making my Internet connection available to any and all who happen upon it, I have no way to be certain what kinds of songs, movies and pictures will be downloaded by other people using my IP address. And more important, my ISP has no way to be certain if it's me.'"
Or am I the only one who has terms and conditions which say that I am responsible for everything that passes over my connection?
Wishing something doesn't make it so.
the author acknowledges this (and even uses similar words: "I'm willing to trade a little security for privacy.") in the article. the poster made the bad implication, not the original author.
good eye though!!
Speakeasy [http://speakeasy.net/] doesn't - in fact, they ENCOURAGE it.
No, I don't work for them. Just a very satisfied customer on a 6.0/768 DSL connection.
:)
feh. stuff.
Assuming you were in the United States, you would go to your state public utilities commission, or equivalant, and file for a Certificate of Public Information, Convenience or Necessity
There are specific requirements that vary from state to state
How does the Slashdot Effect happen given that no slashdotters ever RTFA?
Both parent posts are pretty much right, but you should *definitely check that you're complying with the law* regarding what you must keep.
I'd recommend reading this paper over at SecurityFocus as it covers a pretty similar remit: Destructive Influence By Scott Granneman
Basically what he says is that if you have a thoroughly designed and well implemented data destruction policy (that complies with local laws) it can be somewhat favorable should something bad, like a lawsuit, come your way.
Your Use of Bus and Star Topologies is misleading on how newer broadband connections work.. xDSL is not dedicated to the CO.. Its only dedicated to the nearest concentrator which may or may not be over capasity.. by the time it hits the CO your looking at atleast a 1000-10000+% under supply of upstream bandwidth reguardless of your broadband medium... any salesperson mentioning the word dedicated when he is talking about broadband should be shot... Its the internet and by its nature is a shared medium. its moot to use the work dedicated because it all combines into a pipe that cannot supply every connection if each connection were at peak utilization.. Not even getting into packet switching capasity which is by the large part the real bottle neck when you look at a carrier class connection. The whole debate about cable is faster or xDSL being faster is a moot point its all based on engineering, design, and quality of the "Plant"... I can easily find areas where cable is faster than xDSL and visa versa...
Also cable has a vast frequency available to utilize and can be setup using multiple freq's creating a virtual star topology in an area... Cable is best described as a hybrid network as you can find nearly every style of network architecture someplace in cable systems.
Who needs WiFi when we can have Packet Over Sheep! http://datacomm.org/PoS-InternetDraft.txt