Posted Jul 24, 2008 6:02 UTC (Thu) by felixfix (subscriber, #242)
Parent article: Deep packet inspection
This reminds me so much of Napster and similar situations. The *AA didn't like Napster, so
they broke it into a million headed monster which is breaking them.
So the supposedly common carriers are messing with the basic internet for short term gain;
they will push people into Obfuscated TCP, and lose what they had, not just the possibility of
inserting ads, but of filtering and redirecting based on deep packet inspection. Governments,
who one might think would have the most to gain from a silent read-only DPI, will try
censorship, thus contributing to the switchover.
Sometimes people are so shortsighted and greedy that it still catches me by surprise.