, 2009-02-13
The Australian government is considering requiring that Internet service providers in that country install filters which would prevent citizens from accessing tens of thousands of sites that contain "objectionable" material.
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"Known as deep packet inspection, this is the electronic equivalent of mandating that the U.S. Postal Service, DHL, UPS and FedEx open and read every package and letter ? without a warrant or probable cause ? to determine whether there is anything in the container which meets a predefined government supplied list of prohibited items."
While I share your concerns on this use case of DPI. Your characterization of DPI is inaccurate. There have been several good examples written to explain why:
https://www.dpacket.org/blog/kyle/inaccurate-analogy-dpi-equ
ivalent-postal-service-reading-your-mail
http://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/paul/abandoning-envelope-a
nalogy-what-your-mailman-knows-part-2
https://www.dpacket.org/blog/elan-amir/broadening-dpi-debate
-balanced-view-response-washington-post
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