[GLLUG] ISPs Conducting Deep-Packet Inspection

[Mike]

FTP files copied over TCP/IP seem to get stored somewhere, looked at, 
and usually deleted.  That must be the true because I know one case 
where a file was intercepted, and exploited.

Stanley C. Mortel wrote:
> F.Y.I. from SANS.
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>> - --ISPs Conducting Deep-Packet Inspection
>> (April 4, 2008)
>> The Internet use of at least 100,000 Americans is being monitored by
>> ISPs.  They collect the information so users can be targeted with
>> advertisements that are more likely to be of interest to them and
>> advertisers are likely to reach a more receptive audience.  The
>> companies involved in what is known as deep-packet inspection maintain
>> that users' privacy is protected because personally identifying
>> information is not shared.
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/03/AR2008040304052_pf.html
>> [Editor's Note (Schultz): You've got to be kidding. _Animal Farm_, here we 
>> come.
>> (Northcutt): These practices are far more pervasive than most people
>> understand. Here is a research note I keep on SANS college's Security
>> Laboratory to keep track of this very disturbing trend:
>> http://www.sans.edu/resources/securitylab/superclick_privacy.php
>> (Liston): This is the practice that has caused an uproar over Phorm (see
>> "Phorm Targeted Advertising Plan Comes Under More Fire" elsewhere in
>> NewsBites).  What I find interesting is that the privacy implications
>> of these systems aren't anything new: your browsing data has been
>> traversing your ISP's network in the clear and subject to this type of
>> analysis all along.  Now that they're admitting to analyzing it,
>> suddenly it's a privacy concern?]
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