OT: sharing Rogers

[James Knott]

Andrej Marjan wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
>> No, since they can't tell the difference between you running two web
>> browsers on one computer or one web browser on each of two computers.
>> The connections will be identical.
>>  
>>
> 
> Actually, they could if they wanted to. I remember a paper from a few 
> years ago describing how to analyze traffic from a single IP to 
> determine exactly how many machines were behind it.
> 
> I remember OpenBSD introduced some special randomization features into 
> their TCP/IP stack and/or firewall to try to defeat this analysis. IIRC, 
> the randomization isn't on by default; you have to enable it in your 
> firewall rules.
> 
> If it's true that the consumer electronics routers crash at least every 
> few months, I think it's safe to assume that they're of such low quality 
> that they also don't implement this randomization.
> 
> (That's the big reason to run the 486 firewall -- there are 
> pre-configured firewalls-on-a-floppy-or-cd which you stick in the drive, 
> turn the box on, and reboot maybe once a year to put in a disc with a 
> newer release.)

As was pointed out in another message, Rogers doesn't mind people using 
boxes.  They even provide some info on them.

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