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From ZDnet:
If Comcast thinks you're downloading copyrighted material, you can be sure it'll let you know. But how it does it has raised questions over user privacy. The cable and media giant has been accused of tapping into unencrypted browser sessions and displaying warnings that accuse the user of infringing copyrighted material -- such as sharing movies or downloading from a file-sharing site.
Jarred Sumner, a San Francisco, Calif.-based developer who published the alert banner's code on his GitHub page, told ZDNet in an email that this could cause major privacy problems. Sumner explained that Comcast injects the code into a user's browser as they are browsing the web, performing a so-called "man-in-the-middle" attack. (Comcast has been known to alert users when they have surpassed their data caps.) This means Comcast intercepts the traffic between a user's computer and their servers, instead of installing software on the user's computer.
A Comcast spokesperson said in an email on Monday that this is "not new," adding that engineers "transparently posted an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) white paper about it" as early as 2011, which can be found here.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday November 25 2015, @03:44PM
Just from hanging out at geek sites, it's very clear that geeks are unwilling to self-police or cooperate with existing laws against piracy. Instead, they keep claiming (shouting, really) that piracy laws are obsolete and/or corrupt, but that IMMIGRATION laws need to be rigorously enforced, and H1-B regulations need to be overhauled to admit orders of magnitude fewer immigrants.
Imagine that, having opinions about the merits and flaws of individual laws.
It's almost like we can form our own opinions based on the specific facts in question instead of just blindly following some all-regulation=bad ideology.
And, to really screw with your brain this geek thinks we should reduce copyright and INCREASE immigration. I know, it's crazy, but we all don't believe the same thing, either.