Misleading. Visa/MasterCard/etc. banks eat $billions per year in fraud. In some sense, they're self-insured, and the customers pay in higher interest rates and fees.
Another parallel situation: My (old, analog) cell phone got cloned, and the cell phone company just cancelled the entire month's bill, so I actually came out ahead. This seems to be exactly a case of "stealing bandwidth".
It doesn't matter what contract they have with you, it just doesn't make business sense for ISPs to try to collect from the end user.
If someone steals my credit card number, the credit card company won't even charge me the $50 that they have the legal right to. I doubt that ISPs will be able to fare any better.
You kids! The song, "Anticipation" was a huge hit by Carly Simon back in 1971 (she won the "Best New Artist" Grammy for the album). Her version showed up in a Heinz commercial years later; a newer recording by her kids(!) was used in a 2002 Heinz commercial.
On the other hand, I grew up thinking that the "Lemon Pledge, Very Pretty" song came from the TV commercial, but it's really "Lemon Tree, Very Pretty", a hit for Peter, Paul and Mary in 1962.
Concerning the requests to be able to "reverse" the execution of a program ("Go back to the moment when this variable got set to null; what was the call stack like at the time? What was the value of local variable X (somewhere up the call stack) at the time? Now continue the dynamic execution of the program until the next time X changes..."): Such functionality is available in the RetroVue debugger for Java at http://www.visicomp.com/ (Gosling loves it, according to the quote on that page).
There's another potential attack: My crony and I have wireless "repeater" devices. I stand next to the supposedly-protected laptop, and my crony follows you around. The laptop does a ping, which my device hears and relays to my crony's device, which pings your ring/watch, which replies to my crony's device, which relays to me, and I relay to the PDA. You're nowhere to be seen, and I'm using your laptop. Notice that I don't have to understand anything about the conversation, so it doesn't matter how encrypted it is, or how "smart" your ring/watch/token is. All I need to know is the frequency you're talking at. This is a well-known crypto attack, so shame on them for not pointing out this weakness. True, it's not cheap, but it's less trouble than cutting off someone's finger.
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Misleading. Visa/MasterCard/etc. banks eat $billions per year in fraud. In some sense, they're self-insured, and the customers pay in higher interest rates and fees. Another parallel situation: My (old, analog) cell phone got cloned, and the cell phone company just cancelled the entire month's bill, so I actually came out ahead. This seems to be exactly a case of "stealing bandwidth". It doesn't matter what contract they have with you, it just doesn't make business sense for ISPs to try to collect from the end user.
If someone steals my credit card number, the credit card company won't even charge me the $50 that they have the legal right to. I doubt that ISPs will be able to fare any better.
You kids! The song, "Anticipation" was a huge hit by Carly Simon back in 1971 (she won the "Best New Artist" Grammy for the album). Her version showed up in a Heinz commercial years later; a newer recording by her kids(!) was used in a 2002 Heinz commercial. On the other hand, I grew up thinking that the "Lemon Pledge, Very Pretty" song came from the TV commercial, but it's really "Lemon Tree, Very Pretty", a hit for Peter, Paul and Mary in 1962.
Concerning the requests to be able to "reverse" the execution of a program ("Go back to the moment when this variable got set to null; what was the call stack like at the time? What was the value of local variable X (somewhere up the call stack) at the time? Now continue the dynamic execution of the program until the next time X changes..."): Such functionality is available in the RetroVue debugger for Java at http://www.visicomp.com/ (Gosling loves it, according to the quote on that page).
There's another potential attack: My crony and I have wireless "repeater" devices. I stand next to the supposedly-protected laptop, and my crony follows you around. The laptop does a ping, which my device hears and relays to my crony's device, which pings your ring/watch, which replies to my crony's device, which relays to me, and I relay to the PDA. You're nowhere to be seen, and I'm using your laptop. Notice that I don't have to understand anything about the conversation, so it doesn't matter how encrypted it is, or how "smart" your ring/watch/token is. All I need to know is the frequency you're talking at. This is a well-known crypto attack, so shame on them for not pointing out this weakness. True, it's not cheap, but it's less trouble than cutting off someone's finger.