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Originally Posted by Undertoad
BitTorrent packets can now be encrypted with three mouse clicks.
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Which means that Comcast cannot read the data. Only identify the packet and subvert it. What Narus software did for Comcast. Identify Skype packets. Not read any data inside the packet. Simply identify and subvert Skype packets to pervert the service.
Comcast can simply cancel your internet access without notice should you download what will soon be normal amounts of data? That's what these Comcast efforts are about. To subvert and limit the amount a data a customer can download; to filter where data comes from. Remember, Comcast even wanted to charge Google because so many Comcast customers were using Google. No regulation means Comcast can do just that. If Google does not pay, then Comcast can subvert those packets. Only FCC regulation stopped that.
What did Narus software do for Comcast? Identified patterns unique to Skype. Encrypted or not - those patterns exist. No internet service provider should identify and subvert data packets. And yet that will be legal if Comcast wins in court and if Congress does not regulate Comcast.
Only some industries require regulation because they are irresponsible. Because profits are more important than the product. Comcast has repeatedly earned the need to be regulated. Even encryption cannot solve that problem. Even encrypted packets can be identified and subverted.