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Members of the United Nation’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) have agreed to work towards implementing a standard for the Internet that would allow for eavesdropping on a worldwide scale.
At a conference in Dubai this week, the ITU members decided to adopt the Y.2770 standard for deep packet inspection, a top-secret proposal by way of China that will allow telecom companies across the world to more easily dig through data passed across the Web.
According to the UN, implementing deep-packet inspection, or DPI, on such a global scale will allow authorities to more easily detect the transferring and sharing of copyrighted materials and other protected files by finding a way for administrators to analyze the payload of online transmissions, not just the header data that is normally identified and interpreted.
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Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist widely regarded as the ‘Father of the Internet,’ spoke out against proposed DPI implementation on such a grandiose scale during an address earlier this year at the World Wide Web Consortium.
"Somebody clamps a deep packet inspection thing on your cable which reads every packet and reassembles the web pages, cataloguing them against your name, address and telephone number either to be given to the government when they ask for it or to be sold to the highest bidder – that's a really serious breach of privacy,” he said.
Anonymous is planning to launch a cyberattack this weekend against the website of the International Telecommunications Union, a United Nations agency holding a meeting of 190 governments to discuss political and commercial control of the Internet, a security firm says.
The ITU-organized World Conference on International Telecommunications runs Dec. 3-14 in Dubai. The secretive meet has sparked rage within Anonymous and the blogosphere over a Russian proposal to hand control over the Internet to the ITU.
Such conspiracy theories are unlikely to become reality, experts say. That’s because such a move would require an international consensus, and many countries would oppose such a proposal, including the U.S.
Nevertheless, the hacktivist collective Anonymous posted a YouTube video last week denouncing the ITU meeting and warning of “grave consequences” to human rights.
On Wednesday, a small Anonymous group launched a denial of service (DoS) attack that took the ITU site offline temporarily, said Carl Herberger, vice president of Radware security solutions, which specializes in securing applications against cyberattacks.
“It’s very plausible they ran a reconnaissance run,” Herberger said.
While it’s possible the attack simply failed due to ITU defenses, Anonymous will often test the tools it will use before launching a full-blown distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, Herberger said.
Another controversial section of Y.2770 is that it contemplates having network operators decrypt their customers' Internet traffic so it can be inspected.
Originally posted by charles1952
It has a lot of links to .pdf and other reports which flesh this out a bit.
Another controversial section of Y.2770 is that it contemplates having network operators decrypt their customers' Internet traffic so it can be inspected.
If it makes ya feel better, I gave ya one of those flags.
I think the authorities are confident that the vast majority will never do what it takes to have true privacy and then maintain the sacrifices for any length of time. I'm betting they're right too....sadly.
This is absolutely disturbing stuff folks. People need to get up in arms about this. This cannot be accepted, this is a very crucial step towards total control and surveillance over the internet on a global scale. We need to take action before they can take this any further. I am simply blown away by this turn of events.