Category Archives: ISPs
Canadian Telecom Summit and DPI
For the past little while I’ve been (back) in Ontario trying to soak up as much information as I could about telecommunications and deep packet inspection. I was generously given the opportunity to attend the Canadian Telecommunications Summit by Mark … Continue reading
DPI and Canadians’ Reasonable Expectations of Privacy
The emanations from packet transfers should be subject to a new reasonable expectations test, and one that goes beyond a simple analogy between heat emanations and encrypted packet characteristics. Continue reading
Byte-Based Billing and Smart Pipes
Consumers themselves might insist that heightened (though regulated) modes of intelligence should reside in networks to better control their byte-based utility bills. Technologies such as deep packet inspection could very well thrive in such an economic system; ‘dumb billing’ does not necessarily mean that ISPs will be motivated to return to ‘dumb pipes.’ Continue reading
UK Government Responds to Phorm Petition
The UK is in a bit of a bad row. According the BBC news site, today the Speaker of the Commons has stepped down, there is an Irish child abuse report coming due, and violence is rife in a failing … Continue reading
