Category Archives: ISPs
Deep Packet Inspection and the Discourses of Censorship and Regulation
In the current CRTC hearings over Canadian ISPs’ use of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to manage bandwidth, I see two ‘win situations’ for the dominant carriers: They can continue to throttle ‘problem’ applications in the future; The CRTC decides to … Continue reading
Background to North American Politics of Deep Packet Inspection
This post gives people an appreciation for why DPI has become the focus of so much attention in North America and its surrounding politics. Continue reading
Draft: What’s Driving Deep Packet Inspection in Canada?
Privacy advocates concerned about deep packet networking appliances abilities to discriminate between data traffic should lean towards adopting a ‘fundamentalist’, rather than a ‘pragmatic’, attitude concerning these appliances. Such a position will help privacy advocates resist the temptation of falling prey to case-by-case analyses that threaten to obfuscate these device’s full (and secretive) potentialities. Continue reading
Iran, Traffic Analysis, and Deep Packet Inspection
I want to briefly note and comment on how news sources are talking about Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and data traffic that is flowing in and out of Iran. Continue reading
