Tampa Criminal Defense Attorney Internet Service Providers Become Cops

Tampa Criminal Defense Attorney reports that new tools being marketed by an overseas company checks every file flowing through an Internet service provider's network — every movie, every image, every document attached to an e-mail. The software compares for matches to a list of illegal images.

W. F. "Casey" Ebsary, Jr., has learned that the invasive new technology called "deep packet inspection," allows Internet companies to analyze data flowing through their networks. One leading expert on electronic privacy in the United States says the proposal would clearly run afoul of the U.S. Constitution. The expert opines that the technology essentially sets up a wiretap without obtaining a warrant from a judge.

According to the manufacturer, encrypted files on the peer-to-peer network could not be decrypted by the technology. However, the company claims it can fool the sender's computer into believing that the recipient was requesting an unencrypted and uncompressed file. The system calculates a hash value and compares the files to the list of illegal files.

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