Category Archives: DPI
Agenda Denial and UK Privacy Advocacy
This post constitutes an early attempt to work through some of the politics of agenda-setting related to deep packet inspection and privacy for my dissertation project. Comments are welcome. Continue reading
Distinguishing Between Mobile Congestions
In this post I suggest that the congestion faced by AT&T and other wireless providers has far less to do with data congestion than signal congestion, and that carriers have to own responsibility for the latter type of congestion. Continue reading
Rogers, Network Failures, and Third-Party Oversight
Rogers Communications has a severely misconfigured network made possible by the control and surveillance equipment they have embedded in their network. What are the implications of prolonged accidental misconfigurations and how might an independent oversight board mitigate such accidents in the future? Continue reading
Ole, Intellectual Property, and Taxing Canadian ISPs
se companies. At best we might feel pity as we watch them wallow in their crisis. At worst, we fear what they might crush as they roll around on the ground like starving dinosaurs and demolish other elements of civil society in their throes of panic and fear aimed at extinguishing the generativity that endangers their ontological security. They’ve already made a real mess of copyright and cultural transmission possibilities; let’s hope they don’t damage the conditions of democratic communication itself as well. Continue reading
