Most of the discussion surrounding net neutrality to date seems to revolve around fixed broadband consumers complaining that ISPs are unjustly mucking with their traffic, discriminating between different traffic types, and providing prioritization without their consent — and the providers shouldn’t be. Rob took a bit of a consumer-centric view to practically addressing net neutrality [...]
A good bit of the attention garnered by DMK’s ToorCon presentation focused on how ISPs are employing Provider-In-The-Middle Attacks (PITMAs) to collect ad-related revenue from their customers, and how security “of the web” ends up being fully gated by the security of the ad server folks. While I completely agree with this, I would emphasize [...]
Via the Dark Visitor blog, we learned last night that the CNN DDoS attacks scheduled for today have been called off. They may just be delayed, which makes sense. We’re continuing to look into the situation and are actively monitoring things from around the net. So far there have been a few attacks seen by [...]