[IP] interesting notes -- Western DPI firms helping Iran government spy on Internet traffic

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
Date: June 24, 2009 8:53:56 PM EDT
To: nnsquad@nnsquad.org
Subject: [ NNSquad ] Re: Western DPI firms helping Iran government spy  
on Internet traffic




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----- Forwarded message from Christopher Parsons <parsons@uvic.ca> -----

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:29:13 -0700
From: Christopher Parsons <parsons@uvic.ca>
Subject: Re: [ NNSquad ] Western DPI firms helping Iran government spy  
on
	Internet traffic
To: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>

Hi Lauren,

I have some serious doubts that the WSJ is accurate in their depiction  
of
DPI. I'm doing my doctoral studies on DPI as it relates to privacy, and
neither I nor the network engineers that I have communicated with (who  
are
using DPI appliances) are aware of ANY DPI appliance that is actually
capable of doing what the WSJ is claiming is going on. I've written  
about
this, informally, here:
http://www.christopher-parsons.com/blog/politics/iran-traffic-analysis-and-deep-packet-inspection/

Cheers,
Chris
******************************************
Christopher Parsons
Doctoral Student
Political Science, University of Victoria
http://www.christopher-parsons.com
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On 21-Jun-09, at 9:41 PM, Lauren Weinstein wrote:

> -- From the "Anything for a buck" department --
>
> Western DPI firms helping Iran government spy on Internet traffic
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124562668777335653.html
>
> --Lauren--
> NNSquad Moderator


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