 koitsuPremium,MVM
join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA
kudos:14 | reply to jjoshua
Re: Comcast is forging packets There's a pair of injected (forged) packets; one going to the peer with the src/dst forged and TCP RST set, and the other going to the server with the src/dst forged and TCP RST set.
Both ends of the connection receive the packets -- that is to say, the Torrent server (or other peer, if P2P) will see the forged RST as well.
The EFF's statement sums up, in a nice way, what I've been saying about this for quite some time. It does set a very dangerous precedent, and it *completely* destroys the guaranteed stateful nature of TCP.
I'm still baffled why no reporter has asked Vint Cerf his (personal, not professional-at-Google) opinion on this matter. |
