July 1, 2008

Online privacy under threat

It has been called a “Cold War” but during the cold war there was an escalation of arms in order to bluff the opposition into thinking that one side was more powerful than the other.

The internet cold war is very different, on the one side there is money and power, these are the governments and business, while on the other are the internet users, the ordinary man in the street who have found something that is truly wonderful, the internet.

For years the internet has been free from the restrictions of governments, well in most cases it has! However the authorities have other ideas, for there is a spy more power than big brother which is going to be used to monitor our internet activities.

Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) is basically internet monitoring, the advertisers gold mine and the dream of governments who cannot stand the fact that people can simply do things for themselves.

As with all cases like this in history, they always in revolution!

Source [Torrent Freak]