Re: [liberationtech] diseconomies of scale

2013-06-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 02:35:36PM -0400, The Doctor wrote: There is a problem with that: Traffic to and from small providers has to traverse the networks of the tier-II and tier-I providers to go any appreciable distance. We already know that at least some of the peering points are

Re: [liberationtech] diseconomies of scale

2013-06-17 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/14/2013 03:24 PM, Lucas Gonze wrote: It occurs to me that Prism exclusively targets large providers. This suggests that it relies on economies of scale. Which suggests a defense against Prism: use small providers, because there are

[liberationtech] diseconomies of scale

2013-06-14 Thread Lucas Gonze
It occurs to me that Prism exclusively targets large providers. This suggests that it relies on economies of scale. Which suggests a defense against Prism: use small providers, because there are diseconomies of scale. Thoughts? -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password

Re: [liberationtech] diseconomies of scale

2013-06-14 Thread LilBambi
Legal Struggles Over Interception Rules in the United States - EFF https://www.eff.org/pages/legal-struggles-over-interception-rules-united-states On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Lucas Gonze lucas.go...@gmail.com wrote: It occurs to me that Prism exclusively targets large providers. This