On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, will hill wrote: > I'm not sure they "stole" bandwidth. One of the people raided only > uncapped for short bursts. He used it to save himself time uploading > his work from home. The uploads would have simply taken him longer.
Bandwidth is a function of bits over time. If he did something to squeeze more bits over a given amount of time, then yes it could be argued that he stole bandwidth. You could do the same with compression, but then you are modifying the data, not the physical throughput of the line. > The laws might be insanely impractical, but they are what they are. > That it can happen does not mean that it will. My first rule of security is ask two questions: 1) *Can* someone exploit this? 2) *Will* someone exploit this? Solve the 1st question correctly, and you don't have to worry about the second. Lots of companies learn this the hard way by building security into the client side... ;) -ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
