I like Draytek routers. They have decent security and get updates for years, at a price thatâ(TM)s not cheap but not crazy either. If cost is an issue, install OpenWRT on any old router.
Ahem. "Our [Information Security] MSc programme was the first of its kind in the world, running for the first time in 1992."
Source:
https://www.royalholloway.ac.u...
Mostly, since the European Court of Justice ruling in Levi Strauss v Tesco back in 2001. It was ruled that Levi's could protect their brand by preventing grey imports of jeans in the EU.
Yes, the author of those brilliant books is the same Matt Ridley who was chairman of Northern Rock in 2007 when it experienced the first run in modern times, nearly collapsed, and was eventually bailed out by the state to the tune of £27 billion.
And for those Londoners who had no idea that there used to be an air terminal in Kensington, here's a local history page with loads of great photos:
http://rbkclocalstudies.wordpr...
You're not beholden to a de-facto monopoly for your internet service. Have you got any neighbours within wifi distance with whom you could share the costs of satellite broadband? In the UK there are even grants available for setting up community broadband service.
Obviously, you didn't RTFA, but that's the norm these days. The traffic doesn't go through the supernodes, all call traffic is p2p. The supernodes are directory servers so that clients can locate other clients.
And this is exactly why it's a bad idea to break the end-to-end principle.
You don't need thousands of distributed servers to run a simple directory / presence service. The primary purpose of these 'supernodes' is to set up a call between clients when both are behind NAT. The 'supernode' (just a fancy word for a non NATted server) asks each client to make an outgoing connection to the destination. It is this action which creates the permission entry in the NAT table, allowing incoming connections and thereby peer-to-peer communication.
With IPv6 this (admittedly cleverly-designed) kludge would not be necessary. Instead the endpoints can communicate directly.
These intermediary nodes are only needed because we've broken the end-to-end principle - the idea that any Internet endpoint can talk to any other. We need to wean ourselves off NAT and start to demand native IPv6.
No, wacky heresies have surrounded the Christian church pretty much since its inception. Consider the Albigensian heresy from the 11th Century which holds that the world is a creation of an evil deity.
This is a common misunderstanding of the folk mythology. The North is popularly supposed to start at the Watford Gap near the village of Watford: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watford_Gap
BREIN have a history of playing fast and loose with the law, and the artists they claim to represent. Dutch performer Melchior Rietveldt wrote music for a BREIN anti-piracy video, on the condition that it was only used at a local film festival. BREIN then apparently re-purposed the music for a number of retail DVDs, without bothering to pay Rietveldt, or even ask him.
Worse, Rietveldt claims that when he discovered BREIN's omission and contacted a local recording rights group seeking restitution, nothing happened - until a BREIN board member Jochem Gerrits (who also owned a music label) contacted him to offer a deal. Gerrits would get BREIN to pay up... in return for a 33% cut.
Since Microsoft began their Trustworthy Computing programme, they have had a reasonably healthy attitude to security. To say as you do that they 'probably' use security holes in their own products to take over botnets is plainly silly.
Microsoft have in fact been quite clever in taking down Waledac and other large botnets. The mechanism was not technical but legal: they filed a civil complaint against a number of John Does, which resulted in the judge granting a restraining order. This handed Microsoft control of 277 domain names which had been used to direct infected machines to the Waledac Command & Control servers. Google 'operation b49' for more info.
It appears from your description that Comcast is prioritising their own 'local' users on P2P protocols - which may be a technique for saving money.
Comcast got in trouble for throttling P2P before, so now regard it as a 'necessary evil'; a service that costs them bandwidth (and thus money) but that their users demand.
As such it's potentially cheaper for them to keep P2P traffic on their own network rather than pay the interconnect fees for traffic to external ISP's.
Any network engineers care to comment on the practice?
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I like Draytek routers. They have decent security and get updates for years, at a price thatâ(TM)s not cheap but not crazy either. If cost is an issue, install OpenWRT on any old router.
Do share...
Ahem. "Our [Information Security] MSc programme was the first of its kind in the world, running for the first time in 1992." Source: https://www.royalholloway.ac.u...
GPGtools is great, but it was broken for four months when MacOS 10.12 (Sierra) Mail changed how it handled plugins.
How the fuck do clothes have geoblocking?
Mostly, since the European Court of Justice ruling in Levi Strauss v Tesco back in 2001. It was ruled that Levi's could protect their brand by preventing grey imports of jeans in the EU.
Shitbaggery yes but nonetheless true
Matt Ridley, the failed bankster?
Yes, the author of those brilliant books is the same Matt Ridley who was chairman of Northern Rock in 2007 when it experienced the first run in modern times, nearly collapsed, and was eventually bailed out by the state to the tune of £27 billion.
More on George Monbiot's blog, here: http://www.monbiot.com/2010/06...
Why did you leave the Washington Post?
Which law is that?
A police state is when you can get pulled off the street for not wearing the correct clothing or a woman is not escorted by a male
No, that's a theocracy.
or not speaking of your country's leader without the correct titles and not showing reverence.
No, that's a dictatorship (or authoritarian monarchy).
And for those Londoners who had no idea that there used to be an air terminal in Kensington, here's a local history page with loads of great photos: http://rbkclocalstudies.wordpr...
You're not beholden to a de-facto monopoly for your internet service. Have you got any neighbours within wifi distance with whom you could share the costs of satellite broadband? In the UK there are even grants available for setting up community broadband service.
Obviously, you didn't RTFA, but that's the norm these days. The traffic doesn't go through the supernodes, all call traffic is p2p. The supernodes are directory servers so that clients can locate other clients.
And this is exactly why it's a bad idea to break the end-to-end principle.
You don't need thousands of distributed servers to run a simple directory / presence service. The primary purpose of these 'supernodes' is to set up a call between clients when both are behind NAT. The 'supernode' (just a fancy word for a non NATted server) asks each client to make an outgoing connection to the destination. It is this action which creates the permission entry in the NAT table, allowing incoming connections and thereby peer-to-peer communication.
With IPv6 this (admittedly cleverly-designed) kludge would not be necessary. Instead the endpoints can communicate directly.
These intermediary nodes are only needed because we've broken the end-to-end principle - the idea that any Internet endpoint can talk to any other. We need to wean ourselves off NAT and start to demand native IPv6.
The word on the street is that they have received around 1,700 applications.
Does anyone know of a new site to post criticism of ICANN besides slashdot?
At ICANN 43 I found three sites useful for keeping track of ICANN's moves :
As the great man said, to jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
No, wacky heresies have surrounded the Christian church pretty much since its inception. Consider the Albigensian heresy from the 11th Century which holds that the world is a creation of an evil deity.
Reference: http://www.catholic.com/tracts/the-great-heresies
This is a common misunderstanding of the folk mythology. The North is popularly supposed to start at the Watford Gap near the village of Watford:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watford_Gap
Not Watford, the town just northwest of London.
BREIN have a history of playing fast and loose with the law, and the artists they claim to represent. Dutch performer Melchior Rietveldt wrote music for a BREIN anti-piracy video, on the condition that it was only used at a local film festival. BREIN then apparently re-purposed the music for a number of retail DVDs, without bothering to pay Rietveldt, or even ask him.
... in return for a 33% cut.
Worse, Rietveldt claims that when he discovered BREIN's omission and contacted a local recording rights group seeking restitution, nothing happened - until a BREIN board member Jochem Gerrits (who also owned a music label) contacted him to offer a deal. Gerrits would get BREIN to pay up
Since Microsoft began their Trustworthy Computing programme, they have had a reasonably healthy attitude to security. To say as you do that they 'probably' use security holes in their own products to take over botnets is plainly silly.
Microsoft have in fact been quite clever in taking down Waledac and other large botnets. The mechanism was not technical but legal: they filed a civil complaint against a number of John Does, which resulted in the judge granting a restraining order. This handed Microsoft control of 277 domain names which had been used to direct infected machines to the Waledac Command & Control servers. Google 'operation b49' for more info.
Don't forget shit in the first case. Piles of horseshit were threatening to overwhelm city streets by the late 1800s, pace Super Freakonomics.
Hacked Nicks?
Cached Kinks?
Caked Chinks?
It appears from your description that Comcast is prioritising their own 'local' users on P2P protocols - which may be a technique for saving money.
Comcast got in trouble for throttling P2P before, so now regard it as a 'necessary evil'; a service that costs them bandwidth (and thus money) but that their users demand.
As such it's potentially cheaper for them to keep P2P traffic on their own network rather than pay the interconnect fees for traffic to external ISP's.
Any network engineers care to comment on the practice?
Youtube does have a profit split model - it's called the Youtube Partner Program aka YPP.
They incentivise the uploading of popular material in exactly the same way as Hotfile. The only difference seems to be one of scale.
"Lottery Post has an interesting story about Mohan Srivastava, a *millionaire* MIT educated statistician" Fixed that for you