Tool To Allow ISPs To Scan Every File You Transmit 370
timdogg writes "Brilliant Digital Entertainment, an Australian software company, has grabbed the attention of the NY attorney general's office with a tool they have designed that can scan every file that passes between an ISP and its customers. The tool can 'check every file passing through an Internet provider's network — every image, every movie, every document attached to an e-mail or found in a Web search — to see if it matches a list of illegal images.' As with the removal of the alt.binary newgroups, this is being promoted under the guise of preventing child porn. The privacy implications of this tool are staggering."
Re:useless (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A possible demise of goatse? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Starts with porn... (Score:3, Funny)
MPG? Have you been in a coma for the last eight years or so? I honestly haven't come across an MPEG file of a movie since the late 90's!
Re:useless (Score:2, Funny)
Well I'll be damned! THATS why every time I try to listen to shoutcast my ISP (centurytel)
kicks me off. Maybe if I listened to a station they liked?
Re:Probably just for P2P (Score:5, Funny)
"Well Mr. Smith's ISP reports he downloads copies of "Playboy's College Girls". Is this really the man you want to be your next state represenative???"
What, am I going to not vote for him because he watches boring porn?
Re:Probably just for P2P (Score:5, Funny)
but would he lose his erection?
Re:Corrupting the chinese (Score:4, Funny)
"but the side effect is that in a few years millions of Asians, who might otherwise have become normal, productive, law-abiding citizens of their respective countries, will instead have become deranged pedophiles."
Japan is proof the two aren't mutually exclusive.
Re:Probably just for P2P (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Probably just for P2P (Score:3, Funny)
You would still lose the election.
but would he lose his erection?
Only if he's Asian and speaking English.
Re:Probably just for P2P & he's probably right (Score:3, Funny)
It's interesting to see you saying this, because it seems like every fifth post I see is someone saying the same type of thing... Wait, does that make complaints about "/. group-think" slashdot group-think?
*head explodes*