Any easy way for the average user to encrypt internet traffic?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Horan, Timothy [Tim.Horan () opco com]
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 7:08 AM
To: David Farber
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:   DPI and expectations of privacy

Any easy way for the average user to encrypt internet traffic?
Tim horan
212 667 8137

----- Original Message -----
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
To: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Sent: Fri Jul 18 06:37:39 2008
Subject: [IP] Re:   DPI and expectations of privacy


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From: Lauren Weinstein [lauren () vortex com]
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:23 PM
To: David Farber
Cc: lauren () vortex com
Subject: Re: [IP] DPI and expectations of privacy

Dave,

When it comes to the lack of privacy on the Internet for unencrypted
traffic, I think we can all agree that it's like honey attracting
flies.  Last December I noted the problem again in:

http: Must Die! (and The Encryption Solution)
( http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000338.html )

Pervasive encryption is not only important to stop snooping, but to
prevent ISPs from easily tampering with and modifying traffic as
well (as in inserting their own ads into third-party pages,
replacing ads with their own, and so on -- all applications
generally associated with DPI).

Unfortunately, we are not making rapid progress toward a pervasively
encrypted Internet, and Firefox 3's recent decimation of self-signed
certificates ( http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000402.html ) was a
step backwards in this regard (though I'm currently in a bit of a
discussion with a Mozilla-associated party related specifically to
this issue).

But fundamentally, until *encrypted* is the default condition of
Internet traffic, we're likely to see escalating levels of abuse
directed at Internet users' communications of all sorts.

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren () vortex com or lauren () pfir org
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
http://www.pfir.org/lauren
Co-Founder, PFIR
   - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
Co-Founder, NNSquad
   - Network Neutrality Squad - http://www.nnsquad.org
Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com


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