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Originally Posted by R Jones
Not a business connection. Sorry-have to kill that theory. I'm on a residential BT connection.
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I think that this is one of the most profound of all statements from the point of view of this whole debate.
Tracking someone from their phormed residential internet connection puts e-commerce at risk. So many people interact with businesses which they are connected to from a residential connection. Having a DPI system sitting on that data stream - in your worst nightmare no business sys-admin would think about homeworkers having everything they do intercepted by DPI.
There are so many small website owners that I have had contact with over the last few years. The majority use their HTML editor to upload pages to their server. The rest use an editor supplied by their web host. Most hosting is done through cPanel or Plesk without any https to protect emails and file uploads. All done on port 80 and not ftp.
Children interact with the school intranet - not https.
It must be the exception rather than the rule for a business site not to interact with the owner/webmaster on port 80 and have everything now being offered to pass through the DPI system. All those personal details stored away in a database and looked at from time to time, via port 80.
BT really do have to answer the question of how non port 80 traffic avoids being intercepted by the DPI system.
And ... The ISPs really are leaving themselves open to all sorts of problems if they don't warn their customers about the risks of using port 80 for any web traffic.