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Re: That's not suprising

People can tap your power line or attach to your water spigot. So yes, it is similar.

It's also pretty easy for a utility to see if someone is flooding you with bogus traffic, so I don't think that is a valid argument.
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Re: That's not suprising

What do you mean utility?
Your talking about the internet providers?

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

If they were a utility, we wouldn't be having this discussion, let alone the whole news article.

It sure is a lot harder for someone to tap my electricity or my water spigot. For starters, they would have to be my neighbor. Thats one (maybe two) people you have to deal with. And if they really are stealing from you, you have bigger problems to deal with. Edit: Set up a camera; problem solved and your bill stays as it should. Sorry, not the same.

On the other hand, if you make someone pissed off playing your favorite video game or your work competition uses ComCRAP business cable they could write a nice little virus to generate fake traffic to your network. It would be coming from everywhere at random intervals and to the ISP it would only look like an increase of traffic; not a direct attack (by attack I mean by increasing your bill to strain your pocketbook/company finances; not a computer attack/hack/exploit).
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