[governance] Tool To Allow ISPs To Scan Every File You Transmit

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

All,

  I believe or prefer to believe that this product, although by
no means a new type of software, is well intentioned, but
indeed has far reaching implications that could blow up
in ISP's faces...  Yet I am quite sure that the IP crowd
will be falling all over themselves to get this sort of software
to be manditory for ISP's and universities to impliment.

See:
Brilliant Digital Entertainment, an Australian software company, has
grabbed the attention of the NY attorney general's office with a tool
they have designed that  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27198621
can scan every file that passes between an ISP and its customers.
The tool can 'check every file passing through an Internet provider's
network every image, every movie, every document attached to an
e-mail or found in a Web search  to see if it matches a list of illegal
images.' As with the removal of the alt.binary newgroups, this is
being promoted under the guise of preventing child porn. The privacy
implications of this tool are staggering."

Regards,

Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!)
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