OpenBSD developer “Jason L. Wright” has refuted rumors propagated by OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt that he had somehow inserted backdoors into the open source operating system on behalf of the FBI. De Raadt forwarded a private email from Gregory Perry, CEO GoVirtual Education, which accused Wright of planting backdoors into the OpenBSD source code which is visible to anyone who cares to audit it (essentially in broad daylight).

Content Delivery Network (CDN) companies like Level 3 claim that they’re doing all the work delivering the video across the country and broadband providers are doing little work delivering video on the last mile. But it turns out that broadband networks have to do far more work to deliver thousands of replicated on-demand videos.

With less than 10% of the US population subscribing to Netflix DVD rental service, Netflix already pays more than $700 million a year to the US Postal service for the postage for the DVDs they send which is a staggering 28% of Netflix revenue. Should taxpayers pick up the tab?

There were quite a number of stories that inaccurately reported on the Comcast versus Level 3 peering dispute. Those stories inaccurately reported that Comcast was trying to charge an additional toll on the entire Internet (video in particular). The mistakes in the stories were understandable because so many analysts go it wrong but those stories do need to be updated and corrected.

In my video on the peering dispute between Level 3 Communications and Comcast, I made a number of key assertions that were deduced from FCC testimony and PR statements from both companies. Now Comcast has come out to add confirmation to my assertions.

Bloomberg ponders the question of “will Netflix kill the Internet”, but I think it has a misguided view of the effect of Netflix on the Internet. The evidence shows that Netflix is actually *growing* the Content Delivery Network (CDN) and broadband networks which are now a significant component of the Internet. In fact, entities like Netflix will force and enable this expansion to happen.

This video gets to the bottom of the Comcast versus Level 3 Communications dispute by explaining how peering and Internet transit functions, and by examining the known facts surrounding this dispute.

Level 3 won its bid on Netflix content delivery because it intends to break its contractual obligations on peering with Comcast and essentially resell stolen bandwidth to Netflix. Now it makes perfect sense how Level 3 managed to outbid Akamai since no CDN provider operating legally could outbid hot goods.

Comcast Internet services had a major Domain Name Service (DNS) outage yesterday across the Eastern states which essentially broke Internet service for most Comcast customers. This brought back some bad memories of a really bad week for Comcast in April of 2005 when Comcast suffered two DNS outages in the same week.

In yet another case of a made up conspiracy, OpenDNS founder David Ulevitch is misleading the public about Verizon Wireless supposedly blocking OpenDNS servers. I personally tested this accusation and verified that the Verizon Wireless network does not block OpenDNS.