[ILUG] Eircom sued by RIAA.

[Conor Wynne]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:32 PM, <paul at clubi.ie> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Justin Mason wrote:
>
>  Some linux-relevant bits: it appears to be trivial to evade if both the
>> client and server ends of the TCP connection are running Linux (or
>> FreeBSD, or indeed any other platform with sufficiently powerful firewall
>> filtering support.)
>>
>
> And to add to the blog links:
>
>  http://blogs.sun.com/paulj/entry/tcp_rst_considered_dangerous_and
>
> I'd be glad to see things rolled out actually, if it weren't for the fact
> that we consumers will be the ones who have to finance the stupid things, as
> it would spur research into psuedo-anonymous authentication..
>
> This system isn't even that effective *today*, as BT clients already have
> options to encrypt all traffic. (Well: It'd require fairly massive amounts
> of state-keeping to monitor that == even more costs to the consumer).
>
> regards,
> --
> Paul Jakma      paul at clubi.ie   paul at jakma.org  Key ID:
>

I've only one thing to say on this matter.
The RIAA can suck my balls.

Conor.