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Originally Posted by Undertoad
Most consumers, but all it takes is a small minority of experts to point out what's going on. See the Sony rootkit controversy for an example of how this would work. When the stakes are high the controversy means more to all.
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Well you tell me what experts saw Comcast doing packet skewing on a selective basis this past year? Or were they? How would these 'experts' know? Packet skewing appears similar to other internet latencies. And this is only one trick we now know about. How many others exist that we don't know about.
Bottom line is that large IP providers have major influence - both technical and legal - to make the business much more than just shipping IP packets. The Sony case was only discovered by Mark Russinovich because it was so badly implemented - not because all such techniques can be exposed as you are assuming.
How many years has George Jr been wiretapping without court approval? How much mail has been seized and opened in direct violation of United States laws? You know they are not doing this because 'experts' would discover it? Your assumption that it will always be discovered is seriously flawed.