Craigenator
@optonline.net
| Is this pretexting?
Is this pretexting? Is comcast pretending to be someone else you intended to communate with? Interesting legal question, is it legal for Comcast to pretend to be someone else and send you information (i.e. an IP packet) from that person's address?
I mean, if I sent you a letter and signed someone elses name, wouldn't that be illegal? Is this the same thing? |
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DufiefData
join:2006-06-13
Gaithersburg, MD
| A very interesting question. Network providers in the US typically have very limited rights to interfere with the content that users transmit/receive over the network. (Then again, that presumes the content is legal.... it could be argued that Bittorrent content has a default presumption of illegality.)
The Sandvine equipment sounds like direct manipulation of customer-transmitted information. Then again, I imagine that Sandvine's legal team analyzed this issue for some time before starting the company. Somehow or other it is probably legal in practice. |
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