Comments on: Deep Packet Inspection Circles Back for a Second Look

By: Andy Lee Robinson

Andy Lee Robinson — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:31:05 +0000

No mention of HTTPS/SSL? This would makes DPI eavesdropping very difficult. Only the applications at each ends of the connection could know the contents.
Added to that, there are anonymizing proxies, cookie strippers and the TOR network which can completely hide surfers’ real locations, so people do have an alternative and can avoid being tracked if they really want to.

By: Packet Inspector Kindsight: We’re the Google of Web Security: Tech News «

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 22:00:45 +0000

[...] But where the company has some confused is that it is also using deep packet inspection to also help target ads for consumers. In that way, Kindsight is similar to Google: it offers up a free service and then monetizes it by [...]

By: spying on you

spying on you — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:11:30 +0000

“But DPI technology can also strengthen an ISP’s relationship with its users by offering them more tailored or personal content”

That’s a bullsh*t marketing line. That’s like saying that I am “strengthening the relationship” of this girl i have a crush on by following her movements, and digging through her trash. I’m doing this so that whenever we have a conversation in the future, I will be able to tell her what she wants to hear.

I don’t want personalized ads. I don’t want stronger relationship with my isp. I just want my isp to provide the one service I buy from them; transportation of data packets.