WaPo:
Google, in its letter to committee Chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.), Markey, Stearns and Rep. Joe L. Barton (R-Tex.), stressed [claimed] that it did not engage in potentially the most invasive of technologies -- deep-packet inspection, which companies such as NebuAd have tested with some [which?] broadband providers [and the NSA?]. But Google did note that it had begun to use across its network the "DoubleClick ad-serving cookie," a computer code that allows the tracking of Web surfing.
So, apparently "deep packet inspection" -- that is, actually opening our mail, instead of just checking the subject line and the To and From headers -- is what the corporations and the government are definitely, absolutely, posi-fucking-tively not doing, this time around?
Good to know. I'd wondered what the jargon was.
UPDATE Apparently, DPI was invented to throttle p2p. That way, everything will have to go through the central servers, and that way the NSA might not find it to easy to suck down. It's a lot like Bananas, right? Where everybody has to wear their underwear on the outside? "So we can tell?"
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Throttling p2p?
That wasn't my recollection, so I checked the link:
Which does match my memory -- they were originally pushing this stuff to secure corporate network borders from viruses and other malware. p2p came later, it was kind of opportunistic.
So, we need legialtion to protect the privacy of actual email
messages? Subject line can be looked at, but not the internals.
You're Assuming They'll Follow the Law
Over and over this administration has not followed the law, including regarding domestic spying. Moreover, Congress has done little to stop them and on numerous occasions has appeared to retroactively consent to the lawbreaking by making what was previously illegal legal or immunizing the bad actors.
Laws are things for you and me. The Village gets to apply its own rule, which is basically it can do whatever it wants.
Little Else
I have little to add beyond that "deep packet inspection" sounds like some kind of sexual euphemism or double entendre. That is all.