You can smartly limit resolution in squid - I don't trust this is what they were doing, but you could provide a better experience like this.
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Peter Maxwell <pe...@allicient.co.uk> wrote: > > > On 6 January 2015 at 15:40, Jeffrey Altman <jalt...@secure-endpoints.com> > wrote: >> >> On 1/5/2015 8:47 PM, John Levine wrote: >> > >> > >> > http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/05/gogo-in-flight-internet-says-it-issues-fake-ssl-certificates-to-throttle-video-streaming/ >> > >> > They claim they're doing it to throttle video streaming, not to be evil. >> > >> > Am I missing something, or is this stupid? If they want to throttle >> > user bandwidth (not unreasonable on a plane), they can just do it. >> > The longer a connection is open, the less bandwidth it gets. >> >> I suspect that throttling user bandwidth is not the goal. Instead they >> are attempting to strip out embedded video from within http streams. >> Since the video stream might be sent over the same tcp connection as >> non-video content they can improve the user's experience by delivering >> all but the video. > > > So why do they not take a more traditional approach of: > > i. blocking obvious video services (YouTube, etc) wholesale; and, > > ii. limiting sustained bandwidth per user at a level that would frustrate > viewing video anyway. > > > It's somewhat easier to do than intercepting SSL/TLS connections. > > > > _______________________________________________ > cryptography mailing list > cryptography@randombit.net > http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography > _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
