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Big Brother Is Watching (And Using Deep Packet Inspection)
When every packet you send and receive is monitored for the greater good...
Deep packet inspection has many legitimate uses on an ISP network, but has gained notoriety in recent years for its use in delivering behavioral ads, injecting ISP javascript banners into websites, and identifying (and ultimately filtering or throttling) P2P traffic. Evolution in DPI technology has companies not only buying and selling your online habits, but pushing the technology as a new Internet policing solution, placing the onus on ISPs to compare every packet a user sends to a master database of what's legal or illegal. According to MSNBC, the legal pressure on ISPs to be babysitter is mounting, and the technology has caught the eye of NY AG Andrew Cuomo (we just mentioned his child porn "crackdown" yesterday):
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"A PowerPoint slide show from Brilliant Digital Entertainment describing the technology was passed on to AOL last month by two powerful forces in the fight against child porn: the office of New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, who has been calling out ISPs that won't agree to block sites with illegal images, and Ernest E. Allen, the president and CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a nonprofit given by Congress a central role in the fight."
Child porn is kind of the "gateway drug" to broader filtering of the Internet, given that once ISPs take on the mantle of being kiddie porn cop, it's a short jump to engaging in policing for the entertainment industry and others. As Colorado law professor Paul Ohm recently noted, thanks to deep packet inspection, we're entering a brave new world where the ISP plays the starring role in a potential privacy nightmare.

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sASaSAdAsasDA
@verizon.net

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sASaSAdAsasDA

Anon

TYRANNY

this is not about child porn this about the start of mass censorship on all levels. TPTB know that the internet is the last vestige of freedom of speech and it must be stopped as their plans for one world government/socialism with the international bankers running everything is getting exposed and the governments that they own, namely western govts. wake up sheeple

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is The People vs. The Banks. - Lord Acton, Historian, 1834 - 1902
Corydon
Cultivant son jardin
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join:2008-02-18
Denver, CO

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Corydon

Premium Member

Paging the authoritarians...

Isn't it about time someone popped up saying "If you don't have anything to hide, then why worry if the government tracks your browsing habits?"
SilverSurfer1
join:2007-08-19

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SilverSurfer1

Member

Steaming Piles Abound

Karl nailed the issue when he used the words gateway drug. Given that the amount of images on the Net at large of kiddie porn amount to less the .0333333333%, this crap with the filtering is nothing but utter nonsense and a way for the **AA, and, their cozy buddies the federal government, to invade privacy.

Remember that the Internet is really the only true form of Democracy as anyone anywhere can express his opinion. We cannot, of course, as a society that caters of, by, for and to the corporation, afford to have the worker bees informed/aware of what their government/plantation owners do in their name, therefore, democracy must be regulated in order to, say it with me....save the children.