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We're a bit late to the party, but for those who haven't seen on the Internet, today is a protest day for Net Neutrality, where sites across the internet are disrupting their normal operations to get the word out and get people to send a message. Ars Technica already has a fairly decent summary of who's doing what, and we stand with them and the rest of the Internet.
Due to real life issues, I was late on getting this together, but for the rest of the day, this article will remain on the top of the page and we will be blacking the theme of the site in protest [Technical issues among others precluded our doing so today --martyb].
If you're a US citizen, and want to get the word out, check Battle for the Net, and get the word out. In addition, there are long discussions going on reddit and other sites throughout the internet
Let's get the word out!
~ NCommander
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday July 13 2017, @07:15AM
You can create a protocol that can dynamically make use of different ports. If all incoming connections are blocked (ugly!) then one could send non-standard packets to confuse the firewall what is being sent. There's supposedly a technique for NAT bypass but I have not dug into the details. And then there's the VPN thing. And I do know how the protocol works. But the usual thing is that port 137 etc is blocked so the poor schmucks that can't and won't secure their Microsoft thing won't be hurt. And such blocks are usually easy to bypass.
Still another approach is streams over ICMP etc. Or even the internal google approach where every packet is encrypted such that even if someone succeeds with a physical connection they can't communicate with anything.
I think the killer advance is something that eliminates the ISPs out of the communication loop. And part of the answer there is likely radio.