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Old January 13th, 2008
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Those are valid uploads, but Cox has a Sandvine router that detects attempts to
download from you and creates two forged TCP packets with the RST flag on and
falsified source addresses copied from you and the other person. You won't be
able to pinpoint this illegal abuse of the TCP protocol because the originating
addresses in both packets at both ends are forged.

This will probably be ruled illegal in the ComCast case because they were caught
doing it to bittorrent users and are persistently lying about it to the press and the
authorities, claiming that they were only "delaying" uploads while it is obvious to
all the independant observers who tested it that they were actually stopping all
uploads completely.

Once that is done, Sandvine will probably have to upgrade all their routers to
disable this illegal method of hacking that interferes with net neutrality. If they
don't, the next thing we'll see is millions of users adding filtering to disable
all reset packets, breaking the normal TCP protocol, which will probably get
the big network companies sweating bullets. Even now, Linux users all over the
world are taking advantage of it's flexibility and disabling reset packets with a
simple command to their firewalls.
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