An Education In Deep Packet Inspection 126
Deep Packet Inspection, or DPI, is at the heart of the debate over Network Neutrality — this relatively new technology threatens to upset the balance of power among consumers, ISPs, and information suppliers. An anonymous reader notes that the Canadian Privacy Commissioner has published a Web site, for Canadians and others, to educate about DPI technology. Online are a number of essays from different interested parties, ranging from DPI company officers to Internet law specialists to security professionals. The articles are open for comments. Here is the CBC's report on the launch.
Deep inspection up your authorities (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Deep inspection up your authorities (Score:3, Funny)
If there's a Slashdot achievement for getting a +5 on a Goatse link, you just missed your chance at it.
Re:Deep inspection up your authorities (Score:5, Funny)
obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
Re:21st Century Government Work (Score:4, Funny)
It's also snowing.
Re:obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
I did not know you could do that with a kielbasa, you dirty, dirty young man.
Deep Panty Inspection (Score:5, Funny)
Re:21st Century Government Work (Score:2, Funny)
We've recently been blamed by the US as the major source of film piracy.
I thought that was China...
no wait.. its Russia...
Can they ever get their facts straight?
Re:obligatory (Score:2, Funny)
Oh come the fuck on, what it is with retards with mod points?
That was a troll?
No, not in the slightest. A troll would be me suggesting that whomever moderated the above as troll go fondle themselves with a razor blade while watching their mother sate the insane raging lust of a Brahma bull.
the above was a joke...*sigh*
Re:Deep inspection up your authorities (Score:3, Funny)
Our culture doesn't value foreskin either (aside from grinding it up for use in cosmetics).
Such a thought is sure to put any intact man in your position, causality.
Re:21st Century Government Work (Score:5, Funny)
Can they ever get their facts straight?
What are you talking about? Everyone knows it's the terrorists. It's always been the terrorists. We will fight them with our allies: Canada, China and Russia.
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Re:No Tales from the Encrypt (Score:3, Funny)
The obvious solution is to block or severely slow down all encrypted traffic (that is, all traffic the ISP can’t interpret). This would have the obvious effect on online banking, which could be solved by the ISP’s computers handling it: The SSL tunnel stops at your ISP, which inspects the decrypted packets before handing them to you. You know the ISP isn’t going to do anything bad with the information because they told you so (in specific, there’s both a contract and fraud laws stopping them). This might hinder the adoption of new streaming video codecs and the like, but it’s a small price to pay for increased profits.