New Brussels internet security regulations are a con trick

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The proposed internet freedom regulations http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Telecoms_Package_Amendment138_compromise_20091105 will not prevent eircom or any other ISP from performing deep packet inspection on customers' internet connections. The regulations only require judicial supervision on government measures to sniff what one might be downloading and disconnect your internet connection if they don't like what you are doing.

Politicians all over the place have their snout in the money trough of the intellectual property owners' cartels. eg: http://consumerist.com/264638/contact-information-for-50-politicians-who-take-campaign-money-from-the-riaa

It is not surprising therefore that Brussels politicians construct this political sham to fool the public into thinking that their internet connection is secure and won't be arbitrarily disconnected and that they have some right of appeal of it is threatened.

In any event, many/most eircom internet connections are insecure and can be used by anyone - thanks to eircom's negligence - http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2009/1106/1224258192335.html Anyone could be using a vulnerable eircom broadband connection to download music, videos..... whatever. eircom is not alone http://www.openmediaboston.org/node/706

The Irish Times article misses a number of issues - the main one being that someone using this crack could steal the contents of peoples' hard drives depending on their file sharing setup - and install keystroke loggers and other malware.

What an incompetent bunch (the ISP industry)!