[ga] Google's Obfuscated TCP

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Well again we see that Google is involved in hoodwinking the
public, and calling it innovation.  Sort of like lipstick on a swine.
Excrement by any other name, smells the same...  Google should
be ashamed, but I am quite sure they are not...  ( See article below )

  Vint, TCP was your baby years ago, and a great job you did
in leading it's development.  Now it appears that Google, now your
decided employer of which you are a SR. Executive, is cheapening
it while at the same time attempting to sell security which is weak
at best in TCP stacks.  Hackers are going to, and likely already
have had a huge new form of entertainment at Googles offering
and Gmail/Googlemail users expense.  False security is bad business
and frankly not ethical either...  Fortunately for Google, most users
don't know that they are being hoodwinked, yet...

  Good marketing and "Evangelizing", Vint, first and formost means
that honesty and integraty is at such efforts base... Than comes
profit...


See:
 http://code.google.com/p/obstcp Obfuscated TCP is attempting to
provide a cheap opportunistic encryption scheme for HTTP. Though
SSL has been around for years, most sites still don't use it by default.

By providing a less secure, but computationally and administratively
cheaper, method of enctyption, we might be able to increase the
depressingly small fraction of encrypted traffic on the Internet.
There's
an  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gykf57L-FiQ introduction
video explaining it."

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