I have been fighting to stop akamaitechnologies from communicating with my
computer, unsuccessfully. Any site, if unable to be blocked, is a MAJOR
break in any security one can have.

Entries entered into the windows hosts file seems incapable of blocking
access, as is proxomitron and junkbuster, or even a personal firewall.

Rumors abound that this is in fact some method the fbi or other agency has
found to route all internet traffic though, and create records of internet
activity... I am undecided on this point...

However, in my opinion, it seems that until this hole is blocked, anyone
using the internet should consider their security to have been
compromised...

One method of seeing how easily akamaitechnologies is able to bypass any
security measure you can devise is as follows:

1) access http://www.hotbot.com
2) do a search using any search term
3) drop to a dos prompt and type "netstat -a" (without the quotes -> "'s)
4) in the list of connections to your computer will see something like:
a66-81-235-70.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com

If anyone can block akamaitechnologies(also adamaitechnologies or akamai) I
would love to hear from them...

Thanks in advance,
warmest regards,
John Smith