<story><title>A Little-Known Company That Enables Mass Surveillance</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2016/10/23/endace-mass-surveillance-gchq-governments/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jgrahamc</author><text>These DPI companies always make me smile because 20 years ago I was the inventor on this patent: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;patents.google.com&amp;#x2F;patent&amp;#x2F;US6182146B1&amp;#x2F;en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;patents.google.com&amp;#x2F;patent&amp;#x2F;US6182146B1&amp;#x2F;en&lt;/a&gt; It describes a way of doing DPI to identify protocols that are not running on standard ports. We used this for a protocol analysis product [0] that did network monitoring (for accounting purposes inside companies and led to companies discovering what people were mis-using their network connections for---hello PointCast[1]) and for prediction of network scaling needs. And all that was based on stuff I&amp;#x27;d been doing from about 1984 [2].&lt;p&gt;Bottom line: scooping up packets is easy; encrypt your shit.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnet.com&amp;#x2F;au&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;tool-gauges-web-apps&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnet.com&amp;#x2F;au&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;tool-gauges-web-apps&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;PointCast_(dotcom)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;PointCast_(dotcom)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.jgc.org&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;network-protocol-analysis-prior-art.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.jgc.org&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;network-protocol-analysis-prior-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>A Little-Known Company That Enables Mass Surveillance</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2016/10/23/endace-mass-surveillance-gchq-governments/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brador</author><text>Ponder: Is your available ISP speed restricted, through backdoor channels and red letters, to not overcome the throughput bandwidth of these devices?&lt;p&gt;Or, another way, is the maximum throughput of these monitoring setups limiting ISP maximum offered speeds in the countries that use them?&lt;p&gt;US, UK, Aus, Canada, the eyes, all have unusually low maximum consumer speeds vs. non implicated countries such as Japan, korea, even China, given the technology available today.</text></comment>