On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:08:50 +0200 (CEST)
Mikael Abrahamsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> 
> > http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Comcast-Data-Discrimination.html
> 
> I cannot access relevant pages on www.comcast.com due to me not being
> in the US (or rather, they require an address first), could anyone
> please paste or other way supply the wording/text they use in their
> fineprint, to allow them contractually to disrupt customer TCP
> session in other way than delaying or dropping the packets (which I
> guess is accepted industry standard).
> 
> Sending/spoofing RST on certain customer TCP sessions doesn't qualify
> as normal network behaviour in my mind, so would be interesting to
> hear how they word it legally.
> 
See http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9800629-38.html for some relevant
excerpts.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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