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Re: [privacy] AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter Your Traffic
From: Dave Dittrich <dittrich () u washington edu>
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:24:01 -0800
Paul Ferguson wrote:
Network-level filtering means your Internet service provider Comcast, AT&T, EarthLink, or whoever you send that monthly check to could soon start sniffing your digital packets, looking for material that infringes on someone's copyright.
They're not the only ones getting ready. There are at least 5 anonymous P2P file sharing networks that use RSA or Diffie-Hellman key exchange to seed AES/Rijndael encryption at up to 256 bits. See: http://www.planetpeer.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page You can only filter that which you can see, and there are many ways to make it hard to see what's going over the wire. -- Dave Dittrich Information Assurance Researcher, dittrich () u washington edu The iSchool http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich University of Washington PGP key http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/pgpkey.txt Fingerprint FE97 0C57 0843 F3EB 49A1 0CD0 8E0C D0BE C838 CCB5 _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- [privacy] AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter Your Traffic Paul Ferguson (Jan 08)
- Re: [privacy] AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter Your Traffic Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 08)
- Re: [privacy] AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter Your Traffic Dave Dittrich (Jan 08)
- [privacy] R: AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter Your Traffic Remo Cornali (Jan 09)
- Re: [privacy] R: AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter Your Traffic der Mouse (Jan 09)
- Re: [privacy] R: AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter Your Traffic Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 09)
- [privacy] R: AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter Your Traffic Remo Cornali (Jan 09)