[AusNOG] Why not Symmetric ingress and egress?

[Mark Andrews]

In message <p06230906c840c26262f3@[192.168.1.3]>, Richard Archer writes:
> At 3:45 PM +1000 18/6/10, Dmitri Kalintsev wrote:
> 
> >Like, for example, cloud backup services (for your home computers),
> >which are a total waste of time with the current uplink speeds (and
> >quotas).
> 
> Tell Conroy that if everyone backs up their home computers
> to the cloud that he'll be able to intercept all their data
> in transit without needing to seize the user's computer.
> That should bring about a quick-smart change to symmetric
> bandwidth on the NBN.
> 
> Sad, but probably true :-/

Anyone sane will encrypt the data stream.

>  ...R.
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