[NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic foradvertising?

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Thu May 15 18:22:43 UTC 2008


On Thu, 15 May 2008 13:30:52 -0400
"Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 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).
> 
They're not more trustworthy, but since they don't require widespread
local physical infrastructure it's potentially a more competitive
market.


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




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