Back in April, I read that the file-sharing site Pirate Bay crew had launched a for-fee VPN service, iPREDator, to enhance online anonymity. The Pirate Bay team, having been sentenced for copyright infringement and facing jail time and a fine of $3.6 million, forged ahead anyway and next I read an announcement of a “beta…
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EFF: Help Iranian protesters – run a Tor relay
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) yesterday urged people to help Iranian protesters “safely communicate and receive information tdespite he barriers being established by Iranian authorities.” EFF notes that one way people can help is to set up a Tor (“The Onion Router”) relay or a Tor bridge. Internet users in Iran are using Tor to…
Iran’s Use of DPI spurs debate in the U.S.
The current events in Iran have spurred digital rights advocates to renew calls for Congress to investigate deep packet inspection technology. This morning, groups including the Open Internet Coalition, Free Press, Public Knowledge and the ACLU wrote to Congress to ask for hearings about how U.S. companies are using deep packet inspection, or “virtual wiretap”…
Google monopoly means packet snooping
Richard Bennett, a Silicon Valley network architect and technical consultant, offers some commentary in The Register today about what he characterizes as a “fit of temporary sanity” in Washington over regulating online behavioral advertising. From his commentary: The new consensus dictates that the key issues are the protection of archived information from abuse, consumer notification…