Level Extreme platform
Subscription
Corporate profile
Products & Services
Support
Legal
Français
BT Phorm Trial Leak
Message
From
05/06/2008 15:19:25
 
 
To
All
General information
Forum:
Technology
Category:
Web traffic
Title:
BT Phorm Trial Leak
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01321951
Message ID:
01321951
Views:
15
http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/British_Telecom_Phorm_Page_Sense_External_Validation_report

Pretty soon all public Internet traffic is going to have to be encrypted just to make sure that what you receive is actually what a site or content provider wants to send you. Deep packet inspection and on-the-fly modification of what you're getting is fairly troubling. You have no way of knowing that what you're getting is different from what your content provider is trying to send you.

Be assured your ISP has at least considered doing this and is watching this case closely.

The ironic thing is, that when more and more sites and providers start insisting on SSL it'll make the job of various national spy and surveillance organizations that much harder. It wouldn't surprise me if, behind the scenes, CSIS, NSA et. al. are slapping ISPs upside the head.
Regards. Al

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." -- Isaac Asimov
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." -- Isaac Asimov

Neither a despot, nor a doormat, be

Every app wants to be a database app when it grows up
Reply
Map
View

Click here to load this message in the networking platform