• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    16 days ago

    Do protocols solve the problem of every hop in between you and the destination has to pass through what amounts to someone else’s private property? Some private servers owned by who knows who on the way between that we have no idea whether they’re inspecting every packet that comes through or not.

    Because that’s the bigger issue, and I’m not even sure it’s one we can solve, because it’s pretty important to how the internet functions.

    A protocol still has to be supported and passed through private corporations walled gardens.

    Who else remembers Comcast illegally using Sandvine to throttle bittorrent traffic specifically? Pepperidge Farm 'members.

    https://torrentfreak.com/comcast-throttles-bittorrent-traffic-seeding-impossible/

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      16 days ago

      That’s what integrity checks are for, so that no one along the path can edit what you say before it actually gets published.