Re: Office 365..? how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

2013-07-14 Thread Eugeniu Patrascu
Maybe people will now start turning on their encryption functions on any device capable of doing it :) On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Warren Bailey wbai...@satelliteintelligencegroup.com wrote: The entire idea of prism is hitting tier 1 providers and mass communications providers. If they

Re: One of our own in the Guardian.

2013-07-14 Thread shawn wilson
Well, I think Google has the right idea with providing Internet by floating balloons. And the way that cell phone tech has been improving, we might all have 10G in... 10 years or so? If Google is providing it, it'll be monitored by our government but hey, we'll have enough bandwidth to hang

Re: One of our own in the Guardian.

2013-07-14 Thread David Conrad
On Jul 14, 2013, at 6:50 AM, Mark Seiden m...@seiden.com wrote: and here i am in the icann-selected hotel for the icann conference, and they gave us a total of 500MB of metered usage. Trust me, the 500MB limit (per day, and resettable if you go down to the front desk and request more) is

Re: One of our own in the Guardian.

2013-07-14 Thread shawn wilson
You're on a continent with the second least amount of light pollution of all of the continents on earth (iirc) and are somehow surprised about bad net access? I would question the wisdom of planning a tech conference there, but not the facility itself. On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 4:16 AM, David

Re: One of our own in the Guardian.

2013-07-14 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Jul 14, 2013, at 2:12 AM, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: You're on a continent with the second least amount of light pollution of all of the continents on earth (iirc) and are somehow surprised about bad net access? I would question the wisdom of planning a tech conference there,

Re: One of our own in the Guardian.

2013-07-14 Thread shawn wilson
On Jul 14, 2013 5:36 AM, Bill Woodcock wo...@pch.net wrote: On Jul 14, 2013, at 2:12 AM, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: You're on a continent with the second least amount of light pollution of all of the continents on earth (iirc) and are somehow surprised about bad net access? I

Re: One of our own in the Guardian.

2013-07-14 Thread David Conrad
On Jul 14, 2013, at 11:12 AM, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: You're on a continent with the second least amount of light pollution of all of the continents on earth (iirc) and are somehow surprised about bad net access? Africa is not homogeneous. I would question the wisdom of

Re: hotel networks, was One of our own in the Guardian.

2013-07-14 Thread John Levine
I suspect the problem is the (offsite) hotel that Mark and I are at was not really prepared for a full house of folks interested in viewing streams, downloading documents, etc. (despite attempts to inform the hotel of the impending tsunami). I imagine folks involved in setting up NANOG-related

RE: Office 365..? how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

2013-07-14 Thread Keith Medcalf
Maybe people will now start turning on their encryption functions on any device capable of doing it :) Those that care did that many moons ago. The rest don't care. Of course, if you do not have control of the endpoints doing the encryption (ie, the untrustworthy sucker is in the middle

Re: Office 365..? how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

2013-07-14 Thread Rodrick Brown
Seems Kim was right all along... Rumors have it MegaEmail is in the works. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 14, 2013, at 3:45 AM, Eugeniu Patrascu eu...@imacandi.net wrote: Maybe people will now start turning on their encryption functions on any device capable of doing it :) On Sat, Jul 13, 2013

Re: Office 365..? how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

2013-07-14 Thread Warren Bailey
Kim was never right all along. I worked for them/him in Munich in 2000 just before tuv buyout. I'm actually really surprised journalists haven't googled his back story.. The real one. Sent from my Mobile Device. Original message From: Rodrick Brown rodrick.br...@gmail.com

Re: One of our own in the Guardian.

2013-07-14 Thread Jeff Kell
On 7/13/2013 10:15 PM, Jima wrote: On 2013-07-13 14:44, Bill Woodcock wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/09/xmission-isp-customers-privacy-nsa I can happily state that XMission is my home ISP, with UTOPIA (city-involved fiber optic provider) as the local loop. (Really, who

Re: hotel networks, was One of our own in the Guardian.

2013-07-14 Thread joel jaeggli
On 7/14/13 7:22 AM, John Levine wrote: I suspect the problem is the (offsite) hotel that Mark and I are at was not really prepared for a full house of folks interested in viewing streams, downloading documents, etc. (despite attempts to inform the hotel of the impending tsunami). I imagine folks

Re: One of our own in the Guardian.

2013-07-14 Thread Scott Howard
Don't know about you, but when I log into my Comcast account I see : *Note:enforcement of the 250GB data consumption threshold is currently suspended * Even then, the 250GB only ever applied for the slower accounts. Scott On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Grant Ridder

Re: One of our own in the Guardian.

2013-07-14 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 14 July 2013 10:11, Jeff Kell jeff-k...@utc.edu wrote: On 7/13/2013 10:15 PM, Jima wrote: On 2013-07-13 14:44, Bill Woodcock wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/09/xmission-isp-customers-privacy-nsa I can happily state that XMission is my home ISP, with UTOPIA (city-involved

Re: Office 365..? how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

2013-07-14 Thread Randy Bush
my guess is that microsoft was probably more honest than gobble, appeal, etc. so ms looks as if they gave more to the nsa traitors when, in fact, they were all likely in the same rotten boat. randy

Re: One of our own in the Guardian.

2013-07-14 Thread Warren Bailey
I would imagine this cheap rural fiber showed up after the RUS stimulus? A former employer (GCI, in Anchorage Alaska) received quite a bit of money in the form of a grant/loan for a rural fiber network (I think they may have received the largest of all grants). Would be interesting to know how

Re: One of our own in the Guardian.

2013-07-14 Thread Jeff Kell
On 7/14/2013 3:37 PM, Warren Bailey wrote: I would imagine this cheap rural fiber showed up after the RUS stimulus? A former employer (GCI, in Anchorage Alaska) received quite a bit of money in the form of a grant/loan for a rural fiber network (I think they may have received the largest of

Re: Office 365..? how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

2013-07-14 Thread Richard Golodner
On Sun, 2013-07-14 at 09:36 -1000, Randy Bush wrote: in fact, they were all likely in the same rotten boat. Why I love open source. Look at my mail, track my web site visits. None of this should come as any surprise, especially to the members of this list. Now for the guy down the

Re: Office 365..? how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

2013-07-14 Thread Aaron Wendel
On 7/14/2013 3:37 PM, Richard Golodner wrote: On Sun, 2013-07-14 at 09:36 -1000, Randy Bush wrote: in fact, they were all likely in the same rotten boat. Why I love open source. Look at my mail, track my web site visits. None of this should come as any surprise, especially to the

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 12, 2013, at 19:22 , Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Set up your own email server, host your own web pages, maintain your own cloud, breath your own oxygen FTW. That's simply not realistic for many companies and essentially all people (to a first approximation). -- TTFN, patrick

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-14 Thread ryangard
To add to that, I think the interesting point was brought up earlier anyways -- this doesn't stop midstream intercepts from catching traffic in transmission. You can have a secure endpoint, but if the email has to traverse, it's open to being sniffed. --Original Message-- From: Patrick

RE: Friday Hosing

2013-07-14 Thread Tony Patti
I think it is (could be) (should be) realistic for many/most businesses. TWELVE years ago (press release March 20 2001), Comcast deployed Linux-based Sun Cobalt Qube appliances as CPE with their business-class Internet service, these provided firewall security, web caching, optional content

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-14 Thread jim deleskie
I could support any of these services myself, and have guys that work me that can as well, but none of these are my core business, and my investors REALLY prefer me focusing on my core business, I suspect most of us have shareholders, investors, owners that feel the same way. I struggled with

RE: Friday Hosing

2013-07-14 Thread Tony Patti
Jim, thanks, certainly understand business priorities. But Patrick's statement was that a business having its own server was simply not realistic, which I took to be along the dimensions of economically unrealistic or technically unrealistic. In a world of kids growing up with Raspberry

Re: One of our own in the Guardian.

2013-07-14 Thread Jima
On 2013-07-13 20:15, Jima wrote: I can happily state that XMission is my home ISP, with UTOPIA (city-involved fiber optic provider) as the local loop. (Really, who has 100/100 at home?) Thanks to everyone who responded -- my list of places I'm willing to live is rounding out. ;-)

RE: One of our own in the Guardian.

2013-07-14 Thread John van Oppen
Yep, that would be us. :) Lots of 100/100 and 1g/1g home Ethernet connections around the Seattle area. :) Joe was a great guy, we miss him still, one of the nicest guys I knew. John van Oppen Spectrum Networks Direct: 206-973-8302 Main: 206-973-8300

Re: Office 365..? how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

2013-07-14 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Sun, 14 Jul 2013, Aaron Wendel wrote: We (ISPs) are all compelled to provide information from time to time under a court order. The PRISM program is voluntary. These companies gave the NSA access to their systems voluntarily. To me there is a big difference. I would be interested to

Re: One of our own in the Guardian.

2013-07-14 Thread Joly MacFie
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Jeff Kell jeff-k...@utc.edu wrote: It is our Electric provider utility, and much of the build out was tied to Smart Grid power meter integration. I'm not familiar with the politics, but there were some battles over funding and justification. Power Utility

Re: One of our own in the Guardian.

2013-07-14 Thread Jeff Kell
On 7/14/2013 9:08 PM, Jima wrote: XMission does offer 1000/1000, as well; I seem to recall the price is something like $300/mo. For us, the problem was more finding remote sites that can push data rates anywhere near one's own limit (as it's enough of a problem at 100mbit), making the price