Routers and Redundancy Reflection

Describe the relative benefits of routing over a broadcast style of communication. Is routing traffic more secure than broadcasting? Justify your answer.
Routing messages to a specific address instead of broadcasting it reduces the number of people that can see it. Therefore, routing traffic is more secure than broadcasting.

Can you know in advance the path a message will take between you and another computer on the Internet? Justify your answer.
No, you cannot because the most effective route will constantly change.

An Internet service provider (ISP) just purchased all the routers in your area. What types of things is this ISP capable of doing? Are you comfortable with this arrangement?

This ISP can see all user history, and because of their monopoly, they can control the price of internet service. I am not comfortable in this arrangement, because of this.

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