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Deep Packet Inspection and Net Neutrality
EncryptKeeper writes "Ars Technica has an in-depth feature on deep packet inspection, and it's a disturbing read. ISPs are starting to turn to DPI to monitor their networks, and, more troubling, to look at how they can use it to shape, block, monitor, and prioritize traffic. 'The "deep" in deep packet inspection refers to the fact that these boxes don't simply look at the header information as packets pass through them. Rather, they move beyond the IP and TCP header information to look at the payload of the packet. The goal is to identify the applications being used on the network, but some of these devices can go much further; those from a company like Narus, for instance, can look inside all traffic from a specific IP address, pick out the HTTP traffic, then drill even further down to capture only traffic headed to and from Gmail, and can even reassemble emails as they are typed out by the user.'"
Look at how voters/tax payers/citizens work seamlessly with business and government is put the US on the map as #1?
No? I don't see it either.
Is everyone in the US so lame that they would fight over a buck to hard that they would allow the nation to return to it's no so long ago status as a third world nation?
Since the highest level of government is the voters, I can only say "What's wrong with you people!?"
I sure hope there's a cream for this problem. Vote, write letter, run for office, get involved, or sit on your ass and tax taxes to less lazy people.
-- Prepared at the direction of, or to be sent to Legal Counsel, in anticipation of litigation. Attorney Client Pri
I believe the full song title is "Man in the Middle(of Two Twelve Year Old Boys)"
"But this one goes to 11!"
You have a problem with Iran and China having control of the internet in those countries but in order to save us from the same fate you want OUR government to start regulating it with "net neutrality"? Don't you understand it is precisely BECAUSE these governments got control of the internet that it became less free. Giving the government the power to control something makes it LESS free not more free. Why Slashdot? Why do you believe net neutrality can possibly save the openness of the internet?
"Government is essentially the negation of liberty" -Ludwig von Mises
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