Re: [privacy] AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter Your Traffic

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:40:59 GMT, Paul Ferguson said:
> At a small panel discussion about digital piracy here at NBC's booth on
> the Consumer Electronics Show floor, representatives from NBC, Microsoft,
> several digital filtering companies and telecom giant AT&T said the time
> was right to start filtering for copyrighted content at the network level.

Of course, the problem is that the instant the *first* major provider announces
plans to actually do this, all the popular content-sharing programs will quickly
sprout OpenSSL and similar features - probably even before the *second* big
provider is able to deploy.

For that matter, don't a lot of content-sharing programs *already* use crypto?

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