Slashdot Mirror
BitTorrent Devs Introduce Comcast-Proof Encryption
Dean Garfield writes "An article at TorrentFreak notes that several BitTorrent developers have proposed a new protocol extension with the ability to bypass the BitTorrent interfering techniques used by Comcast and other ISPs. 'This new form of encryption will be implemented in BitTorrent clients including uTorrent, so Comcast subscribers are free to share again. The goal of this new type of encryption (or obfuscation) is to prevent ISPs from blocking or disrupting BitTorrent traffic connections that span between the receiver of a tracker response and any peer IP-port appearing in that tracker response, according to the proposal.'"
Why wait 10-15 years? Jump on the bandwagon and make impossible predictions about the near future.
In 10-15 years, p2p will stand for Person to Person, as we will have placed the computers inside our heads, we will share thoughts. No more picture based porn, when you "download" the new porn, it will appear as you in it. And you will not only get to see/heard, but also smell, taste, and feel. More importantly, cyber-sex will be much more like real sex, as a virtual world will be just as real as the real world.
Oh, and in 20 years legislation will have been past severely restricting this new technology to anyone under 21 years of age, and in some states, cyber-anal-sex will be a capital offense. In 23 years, Comcast will start 'degrading' this new service for due to 'QoS' concerns. After a few million people have their virtual parters turn into cows during virtual sex, a riot breaks out leaving America as a second world nation.
I am just a measly CCNA.
I am not worthy.
m(_ _)m
How about, "Since I have nothing to hide, you shouldn't mind not reading it"
"linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax" -- Galactic Dominator (944134)
Wouldn't the riots break out as soon as people started spamming goatse in this new brave virtual sex world? Also, how can I prevent virtual herpes from all these virtual whores I'm virtually sleeping with?
Yes. Once they actually do make disc based media that can actually take a fall, we'll be using the FDTP (Flying Disc Transfer Protocol) method.
However, the packet drop in windy places would be too much.
"We need to get over this notion, that, for Apple to win... Microsoft must lose." - Steve Jobs, 1997
Norton Antivirus V 50.3
It would make it heavier and fly a bit lower, leaving you open to Dog in the Middle attacks.
"We need to get over this notion, that, for Apple to win... Microsoft must lose." - Steve Jobs, 1997
I'd prefer herpes