Probably online Ukranian language tuitions - good luck with it all Chris as the
pronunciation seems somewhat hard to master.
Amities
Philippe
> Le 30 oct. 2019 à 19:47, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
> This morning I tried to alert my neighbourhood about a police pursuit by
> way of our Facebook page. Trying to access that page went beyond futile as I
> watched it grind to a half while at the same time noticing that my modem was
> running at full speed. A quick check with the TCP viewer showed that I was
> being hijacked by 1e100.net, but not in the usual way. They were uploading
> more than 250K of data FROM my laptop INTO their system. I quickly broke
> that connection and put the IP address into the firewall.
>
> I really wasn't all that surprised. The other internet intruder,
> cloudfront.net, recently opened up new blocks of IP addresses, more than a
> thousand. I've been putting those addresses into the firewall as they show
> up, and it's been keeping me pretty busy.
>
> Google openly claims that 1e100.net is only validating IP addresses that
> are connected to THEIR equipment, but that does not justify stealing 250K+ of
> data from MY laptop(s). Something else is going on here, and I doubt that it
> has anything to do with verifying IP addresses.
>
> Cloudfront.net is equally sinister. They periodically intercept internet
> connections for supposedly marketing purposes. But, I have found them
> intercepting connections to such non-market sites as the National Hurricane
> Center (NHC). And lately they have been intercepting uplink connections to
> Facebook, which results in no downloads from the Facebook image server(s). I
> learned this by way of experimentation.
>
> So what exactly are these internet pirates up to?
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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