Sandvine CEO Says Internet Monitoring a Necessity

Khalid Baheyeldin writes in with a CBC interview with the CEO of Sandvine, Dave Caputo (bio here). Sandvine is the Waterloo, Ontario-based company that provides the technology that Comcast and other ISPs use to overrule Net neutrality by, for example, injecting RST packets to disrupt Bittorrent traffic. Caputo says, among other things, that Internet monitoring is a necessity. Some of the comments to the interview are more tech-savvy than the interviewee comes across.

Comments

Re:Of course it's needed

[willyhill]

can assure you that you will need new accounts

I can assure you it's not nearly necessary to engage in massive and blatant gaming of Slashdot just because you think the forces of evil are after you.

All one has to do is look at your posting history and realize that you are modded down because Slashdotters are sick of being brought down by association with you.

Nothing whatsoever justifies what you've been doing. Nothing.

Re:How about selling what you have?

[whoever57]

The problem is, that a megabit still costs $300/mo or $700/mo. There's no way around that.

Actually, it is something less. I recently put a couple of machines into a Colo facility. For $200/month, I get a bandwidth allowance equivalent to a continuous 1MB. Since I am also paying for space, electricity, overhead, etc., one can assume that the cost to the Colo facility of that 1MB for a month is a lot less than $200.

Re:The louder the CEO, the smaller the dick.

[billcopc]

You ask:

Hmmm, what job entails genital examination of your superiors? And the answer:

I've been a professional executive secretary for 16 years now. *SLURP* Now, how bout that raise ?