Monthly Archives: April 2009
Draft: Code-Bodies and Algorithmic Voyeurism
This paper, entitled “Code-Bodies and Algorithmic Surveillance: Examining the impacts of encryption, rights of publicity, and code-specters,” is an effort to think through how voyeurism might be understood in the context of Deep Packet Inspection using the theoretical lenses of Kant and Derrida. Continue reading
Facebook Fights Search Engines Over Copyright
The problem with walled gardens, such as Facebook, is that you can be searched whenever you pass through their blue gates. In the course of being searched, undesired data can be refused – data like links to ‘abusive’ sites such as those that facilitate copyright infringement. As of today, Facebook has declared war on the Pirates Bay. Continue reading
Analysis: ipoque, DPI, and bandwidth management
In 2008, ipoque released a report titled “Bandwidth Management Solutions for Network Operators“. Using Deep Packet Inspection appliances, it is possible to establish a priority management system that privileges certain applications’ traffic over others; VoIP traffic can be dropped last, … Continue reading
Analysis: ipoque, DPI, and copyright
I worry that increasingly far-reaching and burdensome copyright laws, when combined with the analysis techniques of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), will lead to pervasive chilling of speech. I see this as having real issues for both the creation and development … Continue reading
