ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Recommendation

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Post by mtgx » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 9:39 PM UTC

ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Recommendation
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Re: ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Recommendation

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Post by jug6ernaut » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 9:59 PM UTC

If this were some form of physical information transit it would have never passed. While ill be the first to admit I do not know what will come from this, or really even the basic understanding of DPI, this can not be good for those who value there privacy.

I imagine that forcing encryption over all connections would be a counter measure to this? Going about getting all websites to offer encryption might be another story...

Re: ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Recommendation

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Post by gergles » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 10:04 PM UTC

And of course you can't even read what they approved, because this extra-governmental body inexplicably restricts the text of their decisions to a nebulous list of "TIES users".

Fucking awful.

Re: ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Recommendation

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Post by mtgx » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 10:05 PM UTC

More info here (there's also a PDF for DPI in one of the links):

http://broabandtrafficmanagement.blogspot.com/2012/12/itu-ap...

Re: ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Recommendation

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Post by mullingitover » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 10:07 PM UTC

I recently approved my own proposal to encrypt all my packets via VPN. Inspect away.

Re: ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Recommendation

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Post by mtgx » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 10:09 PM UTC

gergles wrote: post #3

And of course you can't even read what they approved, because this extra-governmental body inexplicably restricts the text of their decisions to a nebulous list of "TIES users". Fucking awful.

The technical PDF is here (I shortened it because it was a long Google link):

http://bit.ly/Yx0Sya

Re: ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Recommendation

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Post by josh2600 » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 10:11 PM UTC

The hardest thing for me to understand is how every telco can complain of congestion, but they're perfectly willing to introduce unnecessary overhead for DPI.

This is not a good day, not a good day at all.

Re: ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Recommendation

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Post by Jabbles » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 10:17 PM UTC

mullingitover wrote: post #5

I recently approved my own proposal to encrypt all my packets via VPN. Inspect away.

Section 6.8 of the PDF deals with those pesky encrypted packets.

Re: ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Recommendation

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Post by spindritf » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 10:19 PM UTC

mullingitover wrote: post #5

I recently approved my own proposal to encrypt all my packets via VPN. Inspect away.

If this gets widespread enough, they'll just inspect traffic when it leaves your VPN gateway/server. VPN is fine for public wifi, or connections between predetermined networks but you can't stretch it much past that.

Re: ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Recommendation

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Post by hnolable » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 10:23 PM UTC

spindritf wrote: post #9

mullingitover wrote: post #5

I recently approved my own proposal to encrypt all my packets via VPN. Inspect away.

If this gets widespread enough, they'll just inspect traffic when it leaves your VPN gateway/server. VPN is fine for public wifi, or connections between predetermined networks but you can't stretch it much past that.

Which is why you should use a VPN with shared ips.