Thursday, March 12, 2009

Wiretapping threatening Internet, says web inventor Tim Berners-Lee

UK - Inventor of the web Tim Berners-Lee, along with other online security specialists at the Houses of Parliament in London, have warned that the ever-increasing power of computers is threatening the future of the Internet.

The experts are mainly concerned about deep packet inspection (DPI), a technique that makes it possible to peer inside packets of data transmitted across the Internet...

He says that DPI is like wiretapping, and can enable firms to learn a huge amount about peoples "lives, hates and fears". (more)