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On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 2:50 PM, Corbin Bird <corbinbird@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> My ISP ( Charter ) merged with Time-Warner. New name "Spectrum" |
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> 1 # : Now I have intermittent connectivity. |
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Nothing you can do about that if it really is connectivity. |
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> 2 # : And with the death of FCC privacy rules, the new ISP is forcing me |
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> to update their records ( for sale-of purposes ). This includes phone ( |
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> all ), SSN, bank account numbers, and credit card numbers. |
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> 3 # : the ISP attempting to force agreement to "no communications |
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> allowed with the FCC". Also is attempting to force agreement to |
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> "Arbitration with the ISP as the Arbiter" for all complaints. |
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> 4 # : billing is only online now. Not allowed to see a Account |
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> Statement, or receive any "receipt for payment" until I comply with ISP |
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> demands. |
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While I certainly agree with your frustrations on these, I suspect |
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your options are pretty limited if they really are a monopoly. You |
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may just have to live with these if you don't want to do something |
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exotic for internet access. |
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> 5 # : external e-mail clients ( Thunderbird, Claws-Mail, etc. ) are now |
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> starting to have problems. ISP solution -> must use their web based |
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> e-mail app only ( only works with Windoze, surprise! ). |
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> 6 # : ISP is starting to filter customers web access. The ISP is |
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> deciding what sites customers are allowed to see. ( look up the practice |
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> called "ransom" ). |
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I would see if a VPN works for you. It would solve these problems at |
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least. Of course, they could do something to block the VPN, but I |
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believe some services can work over SSL/etc unless your ISP is |
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carefully blacklisting them. |
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> NOTE : The ?hijack technique? will corrupt the portage trees if you use |
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> "emerge-webrsync". |
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Can you define "corrupt" here? Looking at the source emerge-webrsync |
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should at the least do a digest check if available (and if it isn't |
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available I'd be interested in that), and if you set the webrsync-gpg |
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FEATURE flag in make.conf it should also check the gpg signature. |
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Unless your ISP is doing a Gentoo-specific MITM the first should |
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detect problems, and unless our gpg checking is completely broken the |
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latter should detect anything the ISP tries to do to the file. They |
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could of course prevent you from syncing, but tampering shouldn't be |
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an issue. |
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Rich |
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