[NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic foradvertising?

Thu May 15 17:30:52 UTC 2008

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Steven M. Bellovin <smb at cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2008 09:46:05 -0400

> The other day, the Wall Street Journal ran a brief piece on VPN
> providers...  The threat they had in mind was wireless hotspots, but
> any sort of on-link evil can be dealt with that way.

sure would be nice if some vendor would partner with a CDN-type group
(or a vendor that had enough 'local presence') to offer this sort of
thing... It doesnt' neessarily have to be IPSEC or SSL I bet... though
longer term SSL or IPSEC seem like better options (since phorm/blah
will quickly start poking into PPTP/gre tunnels as well).

Oh, how do you know you can trust the VPN folks anymore than the
cable-modem folks though? eventually the same cost issues are going to
arise for the VPN folks as did for cable-modem/dsl folks (downward
pressure on pricing and infra/opex/capex costs going
up/not-decreasing).

-Chris