[186140] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT: BdNOG announces website blocks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Tue Dec 1 14:19:10 2015
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From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
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* surfer@mauigateway.com (Scott Weeks) [Tue 01 Dec 2015, 19:40 CET]:
>"Those who are using them are using a bandwidth with
>a specific capacity. They won't be able to do that
>much longer. Because this bandwidth's capacity is low."
>
>"The second bandwidth's speed is far lower than normal.
>Saboteurs can't communicate and organise attacks fast
>enough using that bandwidth. It's very easy to track
>(anyone's internet activity) if the speed is low.""
>
>
>wtf does that even mean?
Using a VPN means all your content will be served from its endpoint
and has to be trucked across country borders, possibly from another
continent, rather than being served over local peering, which would
likely have had better throughput.
-- Niels.