Posts by Andrew Baker

Storm gathers around CDN Cloudflare after doxxing allegations, Pirate Bay deal

https://torrentz.eu/

and

https://thepiratebay.se/

(and all the rest) working fine here, via Virgin and as of a few moments ago). No proxy required.

Of course we run our own DNS service here rather than use the pitiful one provided by Virgin, that might be relevant.

Schmidt denies Google wants 'dumb pipe' carriers

What do the customers want ?

Maybe the customers just want a dumb pipe too ?

Which is along way from saying that I want Google to provide all the goodies.

Most the "USPs" I get on my mobile accounts are attempts to sell me something I either don't want or don't need - or I can get better, elsewhere for less.

Full-body scanner blind to bomb parts

Suggestion

Maybe they should buy some dowsing rods instead ?

UK gov admits gamble on massive net snoop plan

Future Changes

And while these new technologies are brought into existence, what happens if HTTPS, SSH and other forms of crypto also make good progress ? How much use will DPI be then ?

'Untraceable' phone fraudsters eye your credit card

Caller ID

In the UK it is common for the company that handles outgoing calls to be unconnected with the company which provides numbers and routing for incoming calls. We (I'm the CTO of a Telco) provide routing of incoming numbers (both geographic and NTS) to many large corporates - but don't offer them an outgoing service.

I know that there are significant differences in how Telecoms is structured in N.America and I don't claim to know all the details of how it works over there - but I suspect that similar considerations will apply.