What is Nostr?
Steve Bellovin /
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2023-12-31 17:39:19
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Steve Bellovin on Nostr: npub1rkjpx…jufed Yes. The big fear was that people would share their Internet ...

npub1rkjpxkg78c7pqdzvlgx0w6uw0puccz44gwr80v6lem0kdstgn64shjufed (npub1rkj…ufed) Yes. The big fear was that people would share their Internet connection with their neighbors; it was also riffing on the still-current memory that people used to have to rent phones from the phone company, which charged them for each one. I came up with a way to count hosts behind a NAT using the IPid field (https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/fnat.pdf); I got AT&T to patent it (US8,037,167), to keep ISPs from using it, since AT&T was really awful at knowing how to license patents…
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