Encrypted Traffic No Longer Safe From Throttling 268
coderrr writes "New research could allow ISPs to selectively block or slow down your encrypted traffic even if they cannot snoop on your transmitted data. Italian researchers have found a way to categorize the type of traffic that is hidden inside an encrypted SSH session to around 90% accuracy. They are achieving this by analyzing packet sizes and inter-packet intervals instead of looking at the content itself. Challenges remain for ISPs to implement this technology, but it's clear that encrypting your traffic inside an SSH session or VPN connection is not a solution to protect net neutrality."
second (Score:2, Funny)
I would have been first but my ISP throttled my SSH tunnel
Re:This will backfire (Score:5, Funny)
Its a loose loose situation really
That sounds very loose. How loose can you get?
Italian researchers have also found a way to... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:This will backfire (Score:5, Funny)
Its a loose loose situation really
That sounds very loose. How loose can you get?
i dunno. ask goatse.
Re:Never! (Score:2, Funny)
no, but they can add some latency
Re: Italian researchers have also found a way to.. (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah but that's a cheat owing to the tubes. See, they route all traffic through a huge green pipe and listen for the "Gew gew gew" noise that signals the presence of a Mario Brother.
Why would an ISP do Deep Mario Brother Inspection, I hear you ask? Well if you remember, those depths were filled with coins! There's no depth an ISP won't go in order to get those.
Re:Look, this is a dead end. (Score:5, Funny)
Dear customer,
Thank you for your comments. We regret that because it makes no business sense to continue providing an unlimited bandwidth service, we will be discontinuing this offering from next month. Current subscribers may transfer to our metered service with no disruption. This service is commercially viable and we expect it to remain so, and most users will find the metered service significantly cheaper as they will no longer be subsidising a small minority of heavy users.
At your current usage rates, we estimate that your own monthly bill on the metered service would be approximately:
$1,764.38
Please note that this figure is an estimate based on your current usage level, and may go down or up depending on your future usage patterns.
Best wishes,
Your ISP
Re:Why bother? (Score:4, Funny)
I doubt those games even hit 1Mbps up and down sustained for more than even 1 minute :).
So, just like normal peer to peer services then? ;)
I think the most opponents SupCom supports are 8; those 8 can be on a very large map, with thousands of units each, and each round from each unit tracked, though.
Re:Non-timing critical? (Score:2, Funny)
Then they are obviously terrorists.