[Gllug] UK hit by major ADSL outage

[Richard Cottrill]

The 'third man' would be some tap on the line; assuming that's possible.
Thanks to the naysayers for their thoughts. I feel a *little* more secure
from those 6 or 7 people skilled enough to find my home, break into the
junction box, and make some remotely useful connection to the right pair of
wires, without totalling the whole mess...

Fortunately I think the group of people with the skills and the group of
motivated people don't have anyone in common so I'll be safe.

Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
> Of Alain Williams
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 4:24 PM
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] UK hit by major ADSL outage
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 03:07:55PM +0000, Pete Ryland wrote:
> > Actually, from what I gather, ADSL will adjust its frequencies
> on the fly
> > based on whereever gets the best S/N ratio.  So adding in
> interference or
> > changing the impedance won't affect the line.  A very high
> impedance tap in
> > parallel with the line won't change the overall impedance anyway.
> >
> > However, since we're talking about a PPP encaps, it's all
> encrypted, using
> > three-way handshake so it is immune even to
> person-in-the-middle attacks.
> Who is the 3rd man ? (Graham Greene fans please keep quiet)
>
> > Or is it?
>
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