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Comcast@Home bans VPNs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Brown)
Thu Aug 17 11:11:04 2000
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:47:13 +0100
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Customers blast Comcast move to foil bandwidth hogs
By Corey Grice
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
August 16, 2000, 12:00 p.m. PT
Revisions made to a Comcast Online customer agreement document
have irked some high-speed cable-modem customers concerned about
a prohibition on the use of secure networking technology.
The document, which governs acceptable uses for the company's
cable-modem service Comcast@Home, was recently updated for the third
time. The new version, in section 6B, requires subscribers to agree not to
use
the service as a means to create what is known as a virtual private
network, or
VPN--a technology that provides a secure connection across the Internet...
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-2536215.html
