On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 2:50 PM, Corbin Bird <corbinb...@charter.net> wrote: > > My ISP ( Charter ) merged with Time-Warner. New name "Spectrum" > > 1 # : Now I have intermittent connectivity.
Nothing you can do about that if it really is connectivity. > > 2 # : And with the death of FCC privacy rules, the new ISP is forcing me > to update their records ( for sale-of purposes ). This includes phone ( > all ), SSN, bank account numbers, and credit card numbers. > > 3 # : the ISP attempting to force agreement to "no communications > allowed with the FCC". Also is attempting to force agreement to > "Arbitration with the ISP as the Arbiter" for all complaints. > > 4 # : billing is only online now. Not allowed to see a Account > Statement, or receive any "receipt for payment" until I comply with ISP > demands. While I certainly agree with your frustrations on these, I suspect your options are pretty limited if they really are a monopoly. You may just have to live with these if you don't want to do something exotic for internet access. > 5 # : external e-mail clients ( Thunderbird, Claws-Mail, etc. ) are now > starting to have problems. ISP solution -> must use their web based > e-mail app only ( only works with Windoze, surprise! ). > > 6 # : ISP is starting to filter customers web access. The ISP is > deciding what sites customers are allowed to see. ( look up the practice > called "ransom" ). I would see if a VPN works for you. It would solve these problems at least. Of course, they could do something to block the VPN, but I believe some services can work over SSL/etc unless your ISP is carefully blacklisting them. > > NOTE : The ?hijack technique? will corrupt the portage trees if you use > "emerge-webrsync". > Can you define "corrupt" here? Looking at the source emerge-webrsync should at the least do a digest check if available (and if it isn't available I'd be interested in that), and if you set the webrsync-gpg FEATURE flag in make.conf it should also check the gpg signature. Unless your ISP is doing a Gentoo-specific MITM the first should detect problems, and unless our gpg checking is completely broken the latter should detect anything the ISP tries to do to the file. They could of course prevent you from syncing, but tampering shouldn't be an issue. -- Rich
