![]() ![]() Posted in Life | Leave a reply LibreSSL fork of OpenSSLĪ small team of well-known developers from the OpenBSD team is working on a fork of OpenSSL, to be named LibreSSL. The more publicity on this issue, the better. In any event, you can read and sign the petition at They got almost half the signatures they need in a week they need another 60K signatures by 24 May to get an official response from the White House. Wouldn’t that be a fun class-action suit? □ Why shouldn’t we consumers treat these bandwidth claims as false advertising? ISPs take our money while promoting a service that they know they have no ability or intention of providing. If, Netflix, say, did pay more, would my ISP promise to provide great service that didn’t slow down? (I wouldn’t bet on it.The “easy out” for the ISP is to brand Netflix and other content providers as “bandwidth hogs” and using “more than their share” of bandwidth. The ISPs simply don’t have sufficient capacity in place. If every home subscriber ever attempted to use the service (at 3 megabits/second or 7, or 15, or 100, or whatever) that the ISPs advertise, there would be dramatic slowdowns. The problem is that most ISPs (cable company, DSL/phone company, etc.) seriously underprovision their facilities. This relates to a comment from Philip Greenspun’s blog ( How many times do we have to pay for the same internet service?) If I’m paying my Internet Service Provider (ISP) to provide bits from the Internet to my home, and content providers pay an ISP for getting their bits into the Internet, what’s the problem? Why do the ISPs ask to be paid more for certain content, say, from Netflix? It’s a little bit of a rant, but I agree with its punchline: No bandwidth modifications of information based on content or its source. There’s a petition posted about Net Neutrality. ![]()
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