Bandwidth Bandits

Just thought I would post this since I didnt see any other treads discussing it. FBI investigate the theft of bandwidth.

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs...6270073&Ref=AR

I read something about this a while back on how this was being done. I'll tell you though, it's always nice to have a lot of bandwidth, but I think that I've got enough in my current setups to be happy. Especially if it would get me in some legal trouble.

This happens A LOT with larger enterprise business. We have run into several of our clients that were inadvertantly hosting megs of porn (including kiddie). Many of these large companies have multi class C or even class B nets and through mergers and acquisitions, they completely lose a handle on what their netowork looks like. For these large customers, we can use a tool called Lumeta, which was developed by Bill Cheswick (one of the original mappers of the internet. Pretty cool little product, but definatley not feasibly unless you are a huge enterprise or service provider.

Good post!

that must suck. Those were some nice looking computers. ;)

I have heard about people doing this to the first cable modems that came out.

I'm not sure if I understand what is so wrong with using the bandwith that you are provided with. If your a cable subscriber then you pay for a service. If someone needs to use x amount of bandwidth then let them. There must be more to that story. The FBI confiscating massive amounts of equipment without any arests also troubles me. Am I way off base here?

lobster,
this isn't about using 'the bandwidth you are provided with'.
this is about people doing something they agreed not to do, i.e. altering their cable modems.
What makes one person's half-life server more valuable than anothers?