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Deep Packet Inspection et démocratie : c’est l’un ou l’autre
Pour préserver le coté chic des plages de Long Island, là où les millionnaires New Yorkais se doivent d’avoir une résidence secondaire, Robert Moses, l’architecte en chef des viaducs pour l’aménagement du territoire américain, avait une solution simple : les véhicules dépassant une certaine hauteur ne pouvaient les franchir. Grace à cet astucieuse trouvaille, seuls les véhicules particuliers étaient en mesure d’accéder à Long Island, les bus, eux, ne pouvaient traverser le viaduc menant à ses superbes plages, et par la même occasion les pauvres, qui à l’époque n’avaient pas encore accès aux transports individuels. Cette anecdote résume bien la façon dont des choix architecturaux peuvent avoir un impact social fort. Il en est de même concernant les choix d’architecture du réseau internet, et c’est un enjeux essentiel pour le monde du XXIe siècle.
L'Iran aurait réussi à bloquer Tor provisoirement
Il ne s'agit pas heureusement d'un déchiffrement du contenu des communications, mais simplement d'une identification des données véhiculées par le protocole Tor. Ce qui est déjà en soit un petit exploit technologique. Selon les informations du Daily Telegraph reprises par Le Point , l'Iran aurait en effet réussi ces dernières semaines à couper les seules communications chiffrées établies avec Tor, sans toucher aux autres communications chiffrées comme celles employées par les systèmes de paiement en ligne. Exploité notamment par le plugin HTTPS Everywhere de l'EFF ( mise à jour : erreur de notre part, voyez les explications d'Arkados dans les commentaires), Tor effectue un "routage en oignon" qui assure un certain niveau de protection de l'anonymat aux journalistes et aux opposants de Mahmud Ahmadinejad.
The RCMP and Canadian consular officials in Cairo have been investigating up to a dozen cases where couples are suspected of having trafficked babies from Egypt into Canada, according to leaked diplomatic cables. The details are outlined in American embassy dispatches made public this week by WikiLeaks. Some of the suspected cases involve priests of the Coptic Christian community in Egypt, who are trying to find homes for street children but run into Egypt's Islamic law, which bans adoption, according to a spokesman in Canada. The crackdown began after American and Egyptian investigators dismantled a ring that used false birth-registration papers to bring babies to the United States, arresting 10 people, including two U.S. citizens, said a February, 2009 cable from the U.S. Cairo embassy.
WikiLeaks brings to light suspected baby trafficking from Egypt to Canada
i 1 Vote By Art Reisman Editor’s note: Art Reisman is the CTO of APconnections . APconnections designs and manufactures the popular NetEqualizer bandwidth shaper. APconnections removed all deep packet inspection technology from their NetEqualizer product over 2 years ago.
What Is Deep Packet Inspection and Why the Controversy? « NetEqualizer News Blog
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Today we're thrilled to announce the Road to the Cloud Contest . Thanks to our sponsors, we're giving out a MacBook Air every month though the end of the year to those in our community with the most well-thought-out views about the road to adopting cloud computing. It's our first contest on ReadWriteCloud so it's pretty exciting for us.
"Alger la blanche" a pris ce matin la couleur bleue. Plus 35 000 policiers anti-émeutes, selon le président du RCD, Saïd Saadi, ont investi dès les premières heures de jour les principales artères de la capitale et quadrillé la ville. Quelque 2 000 personnes ont tenté de marcher samedi matin à Alger à l'appel de l'opposition pour "changer le système" mais ont été bloquées très rapidement par un très important dispositif des forces de l'ordre qui ont procédé à des interpellations musclées.
FRANCE 24 - Les autorités verrouillent Alger pour empêcher l'opposition de manifester
Attackers behind the Stuxnet computer worm focused on targeting five organizations in Iran that they believed would get them to their final target in that country, according to a new report from security researchers. The five organizations, believed to be the first that were infected with the worm, were targeted in five separate attacks over a number of months in 2009 and 2010, before Stuxnet was discovered in June 2010 and publicly exposed. Stuxnet spread from these organizations into other organizations on its way to its final target, which is believed to have been a nuclear enrichment facility or facilities in Iran. “These five organizations were infected, and from those five computers Stuxnet spread out — not to just computers in those organizations, but to other computers as well,” says Liam O Murchu, manager of operations for Symantec Security Response.
Report: Stuxnet Hit 5 Gateway Targets on Its Way to Iranian Plant | Threat Level
CBS News' Lara Logan Assaulted During Egypt Protests - 60 Minutes
On Friday, Feb. 11, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a "60 Minutes" story when she and her team and their security were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration. It was a mob of more than 200 people whipped into frenzy. In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers.
L'Hadopi affirme que l'adresse IP n'est pas une donnée personnelle
Ce mercredi matin, nous révélions que la Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des œuvres et la protection des droits sur Internet (Hadopi) refuse de transmettre leur PV aux abonnés avertis , au motif étrange qu'il n'y aurait pas de donnée personnelle sur le procès verbal dressé par les agents assermentés des ayants droit. Ce qui ne pouvait dire que deux choses. Soit que le PV ne fait pas figurer l'adresse IP de l'abonné, ce qui était hautement improbable. Soit, comme nous en avons eu la confirmation, que l'Hadopi considère que l'adresse IP n'est pas une donnée personnelle. Contactée en début de matinée, la présidente de la Commission de protection des droits de l'Hadopi Mirelle Imbert-Quaretta nous a rappelé en milieu de journée pour nous apporter ses explications. Elle nous confirme son refus de transmettre les PV aux personnes concernées, au motif que l'adresse IP qui y figure ne serait pas une donnée personnelle. " C'est la jurisprudence de la Cour de cassation ", nous a-t-elle affirmé.
Update: welcome Guido readers Imagine you are William Hague or Hillary Clinton, pressed with a real sense of wanting to Do Something to help the Libyan masses. You draw a noisy stick across the bars of the FCO/State Department cage to rouse the bemused and sulky inmates, and demand ideas for action. What might they serve up?
Blogoir: Libya: What Is To be Done?
Academics join call for change in Saudi Arabia
We've built a new nationalpost.com to give our users the best possible experience with National Post online. You'll find a lot more content on our site than ever before - all of it free - but we've had to move a few things around to make it all fit. We apologize if you're having a hard time finding your favourite pages. We're committed to building a site that puts our users first.Dan Mirvish: The Hathaway Effect: How Anne Gives Warren Buffet a Rise
Whatever you may think of how Anne Hathaway and her co-host James Franco did as hosts of the newer, younger, hipper Oscars, one thing appears to be certain: When Anne Hathaway makes headlines, the stock for Warren Buffett's Berkshire-Hathaway goes up. Think of Berkshire-Hathaway shares ( BRK.A ) as a really expensive version of the IMDb's StarMeter (which actually is designed to go up and down as actors make the news). But a bedrock member of the New York Stock Exchange? The evidence would indicate as much.DPI use in Egypt internet censoring
Rogers is PITA My inlaws live in Toronto, (me UNY) so they were essentially paying $40/month for 2/384k and capped at 20 GB, and speeds and quality were all over the place. Now they talk about Netflix in Canada, and I say watch out because you will have a VZW wireless moment if you try to use it. My inlaws are in their 70's and don't even know what 20GB is, but I do -- its a small fart. If that were offered in the US, they would be out of business because TBH that is like PURE MARGIN RIPOFF.
Rogers' New Throttling System Cripples Speeds - And inadvertently impacting non-P2P applications
DPI (and filtering), “enables advanced security functions as well as internet data mining, eavesdropping, censorship, etc,” says the Wikipedia >>> It’s also cited by CAIP (Canadian Association of Internet Providers) which, in its attempts to have Bell’s activities curtailed, said in a submission to Canadian regulators, “Bell is using DPI to sequester or ‘ hijack’ certain data packets as they pass through the network, and hold these packets hostage until certain pre-conditions are met …”
Phorm and DPI: Alex Hanff
Is deep-packet inspection a criminal offence?
"These are not the packets you are looking for" Things are heating up in the fight against piracy in the UK. Virgin Media has announced that it will use deep packet inspection (DPI) software to analyse whether its customers are sharing copyright infringing material. Privacy International has brought this practice to the attention of both the European Commission and the Information Commissioner, who are looking into the affair. But most interestingly, Privacy International has also threatened to report Virgin Media to the Metropolitan Police for contravening the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA, yes, the acronym does sound like a flesh-eating dinosaur, or a killer robot). It seems clear that Virgin’s DPI system is similar to our old friend Phorm , and the European Commission has already made it clear that it considers such technologies as interception, and that clear customer consent is required in such cases.Deep Packet Inspection