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A connectionless communications protocol that forms part of the basis for the TCP/IP protocol suite. It is a fast protocol, but it has no mechanism for sequencing or error conditions--error packets are simply lost. IP will basically just move datagrams. TCP and UDP run on top of the Internet Protocol, where TCP is the more robust protocol and UDP is intended for applications that don't require exact quality of service--l
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Internet Protocol - In article , PAT wrote: [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Here again, we have a case of getting into things not your own (someone else's phone number) and forging a document or three for your own interests, then blaming *your own dishonesty* on the 'flaws' in someone else's work. While far from perfect, the way the web site is set up now is you go there and enter both the phone number to be listed *AND* a valid email address for yourself. You then recieve back *in email, almost immediatly* a request to confirm what you have done. You must click on the link provided at that point and proceed to 'verify' your entry. And your IP address is noted at the same time for their logs. PAT]Sadly, aggressive teleslimers, like spammers and other crooks, areunlikely to be swayed by arguments that they 'play nice.'The smarter among them will use open proxies to launder theirconfirmations. Others won't care, as the job will be outsourced tousers of dialup ISPs in India or similar places outside thejurisdiction of the FTC. All they need is plausible deniability.The fact remains that AT&T's donotcall.gov site is poorly designed forits stated purpose. It is not even close to secure enough to preventsuch likely attacks. An email address requirement does nothing toenhance the security. The requirement is, in fact, perhaps worthy ofmention on .This leads me, as a present paranoid security profesional who in thepast worked for a company in the privacy violation industry, tosuspect other reasons for the email address requirement.The gathering of email addresses associated with phone numbers, fromthose too naive to use throwaway email addresses (the majority ofusers, still), will provide a data goldmine for epending and similarnefarious marketer purposes.Who controls the list? Follow the money.RichardTo reply via email, make sure you don't enter the whirlpool on river left.My mailbox. My property. My personal space. My rules. Deal with it.http://www.river.com/users/share/cluetrain/
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