On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 01:26:29PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 01:07:04PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > I don't know how it's done, but it's totally true: everything on your > > cable modem can be intercepted easily by people on your same subnet. > > Not these days. Cable companies got a bit more security conscious > about 5 years ago. But how? The lines are -still- shared, they didn't change the entire infastructure. Is each user's cable connection now encrypted end-to-end? I imagine any amount of secure encryption would really hurt people trying to play bandwidth-heavy games. (Not in actual bandwidth but computational time on what I assume are minimally powered cable modems.)
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