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September 4th, 2007

Comcast Forging Packets To Filter Torrents

From Slashdot

“It’s been widely reported by now that Comcast is throttling BitTorrent traffic. What has escaped attention is the fact that Comcast, like the Great Firewall of China uses forged TCP Reset (RST) packets to do the job. While the Chinese government can do what they want, it turns out that Comcast may actually be violating criminal impersonation statutes in states around the country. Simply put, while it’s legal to block traffic on your network, forging data to and from customers is a big no-no.”

Posted by macguiguru in Discuss!, Life, etc., Musings, News, Tech

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