On 3/24/07, Steve Bibayoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello, The hacker side of my mind see this as an interesting problem, namely trying to figure out how Cox monitors you and find out you are serving copyright material. On 3/23/07, Bob La Quey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last night I was merrily surfing the net when suddenly my browser lost its > connetion to the net ... shortly there after the following screen appeared > fraaamed in the usual Cox Communications logo and format. [...] > Step 1. Remove the copyrighted files. the following files must be > deleted from your computer: > > Title: Rome > Filename: rome.209.hdtv-lol.r00 > Filesize: 15000000 It would be interesting if someone who has Cox could answer these questions: 1) Was it the title itself that gave it away? What happens when you name a term paper "Rome" and share it via bit torrent? (Same name, different file type) 2) You have your own home movie and you name it "Rome" and share it via bit torrent. 3) What happens when you use non-standard ports for bit torrent, does Cox notice? 4) You used different trackers? How long (if they do at all) does it take Cox to notice? 5) Different combinations of all or some of the above. > Step 3. After deleting the files and disabling file sharing, you may > click here to reactivate your service. Please note that reactivating > your connection without cleaning your computer first may result in > additional suspensions or permanent termination of your Cox High Speed > Internet service Unfortunately, this statement above kind of makes it a "try at most once"(if willing to at all) test to see what kind of monitoring they have. I don't have Cox, so I may never find out the answers to these questions, but wanted to throw my ideas out there in case someone else would like to try ;-). Steve Hmm, I don't have Cox either, but this sounds like the perfect job for a honypot on the DMZ just to keep tabs on what the ISP is doing, kind of a snoop on to them as they snoop onto us approach. If we accept the idea that there is no expectation of privacy on the publicly accessible Internet and keep the monitoring close to your local LAN, sauce for the goose and all that.
Robert D Robert Donovan -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
