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First off, for those of us not in the know, what's DPI? The only meaning of that acronym I know is dots per inch. A quick google search doesn't turn up anything obviously relevant. On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 07:56:07PM -0500, Tom Martinson wrote: > 1. As a user, I find them reprehensible. In no way should anyone be > able to see my data traffic, That's just crazy. Unless you're using encryption to prevent it. Your analogy with the post office is a bad one... unless you want to extend it a bit. Data that's not encrypted is like sending a post card. Encryption is the equivalent of an envelope. You don't have to agree, but in practical terms, that's just the way it is. > and decide for me that my Hulu download should have a lower priority > than my email traffic, or vice versa. While I agree in principle, that also is kind of crazy. QoS and other schemes for throttling bandwidth are essential mechanisms for ensuring that end users get a reasonable internet experience. Streaming video packets, in general, SHOULD have a higher priority than e-mail traffic, so that you don't experience skips and such just because your e-mail client is downloading an e-mail with a huge attachment while you're watching, etc. > Also it is not right for someone to have the ability and the need to > "inspect" my packets and do with them as they wish, (I think that > everyone remembers all those ACK resets to fight P2P traffic). I agree to an extent... That is, I agree literally with your statement. But, they should be able to inspect your packets, because the packets are going over their hardware to get to you... and they should be able to make decisions about how to forward those packets based on the contents, so long as it is for the benefit of their customers. My understanding is that the post office can and does inspect and even x-ray packages it deems suspicious, or otherwise appropriate to inspect. > DPI was also used by NebUadd to identify advertisements and then > substitute in what they want to put in. This screams in the face of > privacy issues. If this is true, it does seem pretty unacceptable. But not for privacy reasons... there's no personally identifying information in an ad (at least, not normally). It's more unacceptable because someone paid for that traffic to get to the recipient, and the recipient may even have specifically wanted it (though, if it really was an ad, that seems unlikely). -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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