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CES 2008: AT&T looking for ways to scan customers' communications for copyright violations

article published on 9 January, 2008

According to Brad Stone of the New York Times, if a panel discussion at CES regarding piracy is any indication AT&T is working on developing network filtering technology that could be used to identify copyrighted content being uploaded or downloaded by subscribers to their internet service. ?What we are already doing to address piracy hasn?t been working. There?s no secret there,? said ... [ read the full article ]

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duckNrun

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13. January 2008 @ 18:30

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Originally posted by craftyzan:
I use Linux. That makes their job just a tad harder...;)

Doesn't Linux send data through the ISP same as Windows or OSX or is there some super duper secret protocols that Linux uses that somehow bypasses the ISP? Maybe Linux sends things through the magical ether instead of through AT&T pipes?

They do not have to install a single thing on your PC to monitor what you do online through their ISP. Maybe scanning your drive will be harder BUT this is about monitoring your COMMUNICATIONS which by default unless you are using end to end encryption goes through their servers in the wide open.

The OS has nothing to do with this. That's like saying 'I bought my phone from radio shack instead of the AT&T store so they can't listen to my phone calls'. Go ahead and use Linux but you are no safer when it comes to monitoring what you do online (via ISP snooping the data sent and received) than using Windows. Maybe they can't root you but they don't need to.

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craftyzan

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13. January 2008 @ 22:58

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What about archiving your crap in a RAR with an extra bogus file to throw the hash?

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