On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 05:39:49PM -0600, Aaron Hall wrote: [snip] > Of course, BPI only works (I believe) if the modem is DOCSIS 1.1 > compliant or better. Older modems won't be able to use it. In those > cases, Cox falls back to ordinary unencrypted transmission. > But can you tell if encryption is on? If that technology fails for a moment (service enhancement/repairs!) you are unprotected. I think the obscurity would be equivalent to a circuit-switched line (DSL) but there really ought to be a move to encrypt-or-nothing. (And while IPsec et. al. exist, find me one ISP that requires or even provides an end-point.)
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