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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Deep Packet Inspection

There was a big thing discussion last year involving the likes of Vint Cerf and other internet heavyweights regarding net neutrality. Basically the net neutrality advocates say that all internet traffic regardless of content should be given equal priority. The worry is that this will develop into a first and second class internet in which not everyone will have the same privileges and freedoms, as well as making it easier for net censorship all kinds of privacy breaches. The promoters though argue that priority should be given to VOIP and streaming services to guarantee smooth delivery, while giving less priority to file transfer protocols like P2P and FTP. This has already been a problem with Canada´s Comcast presenting advertising to customers based on the content of what they are surfing, and the UK´s Phorm which was similarly controversial. The article here from Ars Technica describes the curent arguments.

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