[privacy] AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter Your Traffic

[Dave Dittrich]

Paul Ferguson wrote:
> Network-level filtering means your Internet service provider  Comcast,
> AT&T, EarthLink, or whoever you send that monthly check to  could soon
> start sniffing your digital packets, looking for material that infringes on
> someone's copyright.

They're not the only ones getting ready.  There are at least 5 anonymous
P2P file sharing networks that use RSA or Diffie-Hellman key exchange
to seed AES/Rijndael encryption at up to 256 bits. See:

http://www.planetpeer.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page


You can only filter that which you can see, and there are many ways
to make it hard to see what's going over the wire.

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