[104459] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu May 15 14:22:54 2008
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 14:22:43 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <75cb24520805151030h1a14be48w69b4ccc969883d9a@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Thu, 15 May 2008 13:30:52 -0400
"Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists@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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