Comcast, tell it like it is. Spoof tactics.

So the word is out, Comcast is hacking customer uploads by generating-sending them spoof RESETS. AP Comcast Comcast is messing up with the TCP Protocol in customers PC's. There 4 flow control packets on the tcp the protocol. SYN: Sync request from client "Client saying, let's create a connection". SYN ACK: Acknowledge to SYN from server "Server saying, sounds good, I'm ready". ACK: Acknowledge to SYN ACK from client "Client saying, I got your ready, here we go!". RST: Request to abort transmission from CLIENT or SERVER."Client or Server saying: something is going amiss on my end, please quit sending data and tear down this connection" The messages contain also 2 essential pieces of information: The sender info. The destination info. What COMCAST is doing is forging (constructing RST messages with false information) to control the UPLOAD traffic from a costumer is to forge packets (construct messages with FALSE information) and send them to a customer to effectively DISRUPT the activity being originated by the customer. Is this Unethical? Unequivocally yes. The message sent to the customer is FALSE (the origin of the RST message is fictitious , is not coming from the other end, the packet is generated by Comcast. Comcast is borrowing tactics from a cyber attack technique called "man in the middle". Comcast analyzes the traffic of extract the needed data to generate spoofed traffic. Comcast does it to circumvent/manipulate the TCP protocol on the victim's PC). The objective is this: By resetting the connection Comcast achieves the following: A: The Customer is not aware that of the origin of what she/he consider a problem. B: The Customer cannot claim that the service is blocked since the connection may be reestablished. C: Comcast controls at will what traffic has preferential treatment without getting their hands dirty (all the manipulation happening in the Customers PC) without the customer ever knowing who is resetting their connections. Is it illegal? Nope. If a Customer or an individual was doing that to a major ISP, it would be considered a cyber attack (sending packets with spoofed data). From the other end, since the customer is not forced to use the service, the answer is no. Is it disruptive? Big time! The whole Internet runs under the assertion that the contents of the protocols running it, is VERDICT. You can imagine people wondering: Who sent this RESET message? It wasn't the other end? Who is sending Spoofed data!!?? I hope Customers understand Comcast attitude towards them and the kind of "top dollar" service they get.

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