On 6 January 2015 at 15:40, Jeffrey Altman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/5/2015 8:47 PM, John Levine wrote: > > > > > http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/05/gogo-in-flight-internet-says-it-issues-fake-ssl-certificates-to-throttle-video-streaming/ > > > > They claim they're doing it to throttle video streaming, not to be evil. > > > > Am I missing something, or is this stupid? If they want to throttle > > user bandwidth (not unreasonable on a plane), they can just do it. > > The longer a connection is open, the less bandwidth it gets. > > I suspect that throttling user bandwidth is not the goal. Instead they > are attempting to strip out embedded video from within http streams. > Since the video stream might be sent over the same tcp connection as > non-video content they can improve the user's experience by delivering > all but the video. > So why do they not take a more traditional approach of: i. blocking obvious video services (YouTube, etc) wholesale; and, ii. limiting sustained bandwidth per user at a level that would frustrate viewing video anyway. It's somewhat easier to do than intercepting SSL/TLS connections.
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