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TCP quite literally is NOT UDP. You can do TCP over IP and you can do UDP over IP.

But under NO circumstances could you claim to do UDP over TCP/IP.

Were Netflix performing this "data rape" of Verizon's network it would be huge news as a DoS/DDoS attack. But that's not what we're hearing.

CAN people perform attacks? Yes absolutely and it requires no consent. But without some kind of consent it's regarded as an attack rather than as legitimate network traffic.




Cool. So, in networking, we call the set of IP protocols "TCP/IP". Just FYI so you can correct people a bit better next time.




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