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Re:There are sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO sa... by fransje26 on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @04:33AM (#45577606)
Here is their excuse:

> Panasonic told us that enabling encryption could incur a 20–30% capacity loss. In addition, when using IPsec, ESP and IP headers can introduce 20–30 bytes of overhead, which is nontrivial for small-packet applications like VoIP and video calls

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Re:There are sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO sa... by lxgr on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @08:03AM (#45579018)
> Panasonic told us that enabling encryption could incur a 20–30% capacity loss.

Wow, I guess they're still betting on customers sending tons of redundant data up/down that they can shave off via compression? That's such a 90s modem thing to do. ("Faster than 56 kbit/s!!")

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