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Undertoad · 02-09-2006, 01:16 PM

They can target Skype all they like. They can't target them all. They would be trying to build a sandwall against a tsunami.

Their target would be a moving one, too; Skype controls its own software, so skype can look like something else, if it wants to. It can hitch itself to different ports. It can route through proxy servers. It can pretend to be other data. It can encrypt differently.

And say, who loses the game if Google blocks Verizon?

What history do you care to look at? Examine the history of every company that's planned to 0wn the net in any similar way. This is the Internet, this is the place where hackers found an innocent chat protocol to be the ideal place to swap pirate files. This is the place where people figured out how to send secret messages inside JPG files with no visible difference in image. Legality doesn't enter into it. If I can connect to you, and ship you two 100GB movie files at the same time, I can figure out a way to use 16kb of that traffic for voice. Nobody can stop us. Period.

02-09-2006, 01:16 PM	#3
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	They can target Skype all they like. They can't target them all. They would be trying to build a sandwall against a tsunami. Their target would be a moving one, too; Skype controls its own software, so skype can look like something else, if it wants to. It can hitch itself to different ports. It can route through proxy servers. It can pretend to be other data. It can encrypt differently. And say, who loses the game if Google blocks Verizon? What history do you care to look at? Examine the history of every company that's planned to 0wn the net in any similar way. This is the Internet, this is the place where hackers found an innocent chat protocol to be the ideal place to swap pirate files. This is the place where people figured out how to send secret messages inside JPG files with no visible difference in image. Legality doesn't enter into it. If I can connect to you, and ship you two 100GB movie files at the same time, I can figure out a way to use 16kb of that traffic for voice. Nobody can stop us. Period.