Traffic Shaping a la Bell
In the past few weeks, “traffic shaping” has hit the news with Bell being in the midst of trying to limit peer-to-peer file sharing on its network. Traffic shaping is a technology that limits how much bandwidth (bandwidth can be loosely thought of as the speed of an Internet connection) a certain application can use.
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Security in Depth
When people hear the word “security” in the context of a computer, they inevitably think of measures taken to prevent hackers from getting in. The truth of the matter is that security really means the protection of data and equipment as a whole. The idea of a hacker sitting behind a computer screen feverishly scanning […]