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ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection

Posted by Soulskill on from the inspect-my-encryption-all-you'd-like dept.

dsinc sends this quote from Techdirt about the International Telecommunications Union's ongoing conference in Dubai that will have an effect on the internet everywhere: "One of the concerns is that decisions taken there may make the Internet less a medium that can be used to enhance personal freedom than a tool for state surveillance and oppression. The new Y.2770 standard is entitled 'Requirements for deep packet inspection in Next Generation Networks', and seeks to define an international standard for deep packet inspection (DPI). As the Center for Democracy & Technology points out, it is thoroughgoing in its desire to specify technologies that can be used to spy on people. One of the big issues surrounding WCIT and the ITU has been the lack of transparency — or even understanding what real transparency might be. So it will comes as no surprise that the new DPI standard was negotiated behind closed doors, with no drafts being made available."

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  1. Re:fucking politicians... by wierd_w · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Then their little good-ol-boys club should be shuttered in place of an organization with some fucking public oversight, that CAN be policed against this bullshit!

    A room of wrinkled old penises whacking off to violating the public trust should never be accepted. Ever!

  2. Re:can you say hell no by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No they won't. It is a matter of "national security"

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  3. Handing the Internet's control to the UN eh? by fufufang · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think ITU's action shows the true colour of the United Nation. I think it is simply too dangerous to pass on the control of the Internet to the United Nation.

  4. Re:fucking politicians... by ghostdoc · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Except this is not politicians making these deals. It's unelected bureaucrats, effectively outside the control of the politicians because a senior bureaucrat can do a lot more damage to a politician's career than the other way around.

    You don't vote for these people, so they don't care about your opinion.

    The treaty they come up with will need to be ratified by each country's politicians, but it'll either go through unannounced and unremarked, or there'll be a convincing 'If you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to fear' campaign to lull the moron majority into complacence.

    I hate to sound defeatist on this, but we are going to have to start building darknets if we want truly free communication in the future.

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