Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts
Martin Fick
mogulguy at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 11 00:45:03 UTC 2009
--- On Mon, 8/10/09, Martin Fick <mogulguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- On Mon, 8/10/09, Scott Bennett <bennett at cs.niu.edu> wrote:
>
> > Next, the conversation took a turn
> > I was told that having *any* ports "open facing the
> > Internet" was a violation of Comcast's Acceptable Use
> > Policy (AUP) for residential accounts.
>
> Seems like another good argument in favor of
> implementing a mechanism for relays to work behind
> firewalls, you would not need to have any open ports.
> ... so let's not complain about the price of gas
> here. ;) (unless it is to propose ways to make
> tor use less gas...)
Which give me another idea. What if directory servers
were used to publish a "secret port knocking handshake"
for relays? This would allow relays to go unnoticed on
port scans. Obviously this would not be a technique to
hide tor relays, but only to hide open ports from ISPs.
As long as they do not specifically target tor relay
operators, this might be effective?
-Martin
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