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Adoption of Traffic Sniffing Standard Fans WCIT Flames

Posted by BernardSwiss on · 6 comments
Center for Democracy & Technology (cdt.org); By Alissa Cooper, Emma Llansó 		Mail this story
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The telecommunications standards arm of the U.N. has quietly endorsed the standardization of technologies that could give governments and companies the ability to sift through all of an Internet user’s traffic – including emails, banking transactions, and voice calls – without adequate privacy safeguards. The move suggests that some governments hope for a world where even encrypted communications may not be safe from prying eyes. At the core of this development is the adoption of a proposed international standard that outlines requirements for a technology known as "Deep Packet Inspection" (DPI). As we’ve noted several times before, depending on how it is used, DPI has the potential to be extremely privacy-invasive, to defy user expectations, and to facilitate wiretapping.

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Comments (6)

tuxchick ·
Fixed. Sometimes links just vanish. I blame society.
BernardSwiss Story submitter ·
And I blame editorial cabals who just don't like what I'm saying.

:-D (yes, I'm kidding.)
tuxchick ·
I must hunt down and purge the blabbermouth who revealed the existence of the LXer editorial cabals.
jdixon ·
> I must hunt down and purge the blabbermouth who revealed the existence of the LXer editorial cabals.

To late, TC. The Internet is forever. :)

The only bad thing is that some people will believe him. :(

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