It's no secret that DPI is used routinely by major operators for traffic management, a prelude to service differentiation.<br><br>They only need identifying packet type (text, phone, image, video, etc), unless more is required by national laws.<br>

<br>It's also a constituent of mass surveillance systems, first developed in 2002 by ATT and Boeing/Narus for NSA. One reaps what one sawed.<br><br>Louis<br>- - -<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Ian Peter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com" target="_blank">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>




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