Tag Archives: packet inspection
Deep Packet Inspection Canada
Last week my advisor, Dr. Colin Bennett, and I launched a new website that is meant to provide Canadians with information about how their Internet Service Provider (ISP) monitors data traffic and manages their network. This website, Deep Packet Inspection Canada, aggregates information that has been disclosed on the public record about how the technology is used, why, and what uses of it are seen as ‘off limits’ by ISPs. Continue reading
Choosing Winners with Deep Packet Inspection
Citizens along with government and business, as opposed to business and deep packet inspection alone, must be responsible for choosing the ‘winning’ applications for the Internet. Continue reading
Thoughts on COUNTER: Counterfeiting and Piracy Research Conference
Generally the research presented was well-rooted in (what appear to be) rigorous methodological techniques, and perhaps this research might be adopted and leveraged by policymakers in their ongoing engagements with copyright, content producers, and the public. My expectations, however, are less positive: I fear that the work of the COUNTER research project will remain sheltered in academia, sequestered from the public, and consequently ineffective in reshaping the copyright debacle in but the most limited of fashions. Hopefully this is a case where academia can successfully puncture the academic/public divide and breech the public policy debate, but I’m not holding my breath. Continue reading
Draft – Deep Packet Inspection: Privacy, Mash-ups, and Dignities
A draft of a paper that I’m presenting to the Counter: Piracy and Counterfeit conference Continue reading
