Re: Comcast actively interferes with Bittorrent andother file-sharing programs...

["Lukas Beeler" <l.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dave,

You're correct. But if the Comcast software installs an additional root
certificate on your PC, everything would work seamlessly.

Or even more nefarious, when you last downloaded an .exe file, Comcast
modified the stream, sent a Trojan which installed the additional root
certificate (now, the Trojan could just log keystrokes, but stay with me
here).

But on a non-compromised PC, this won't work. Unless Comcast pays huge
money to verisign to get a cert for amazons domain name ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 9:33 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Comcast actively interferes with Bittorrent
andother file-sharing programs...

*** REPLYING TO A TECHNICAL TOPIC IN CPF0000

Buck Calabro wrote:
> You request Amazon to initiate a secure session
> Comcast carries the traffic and sees your request
>   Comcast then asks Amazon for a secure session
>   Comcast gets a secure session to Amazon
>   Comcast gives you a secure session between Comcast and you

I don't think that would work ... the browser would detect that the
certificate for the session doesn't correspond to the host you are
supposed to be connecting with.

david