Bypass Deep Packet Inspection from Virgin Media
2 Comments// Posted in News, Technical by Julian on 11.30.09.
I’m a big fan of russian based music download sites and am happy to pay the prices they charge but I do download the odd torrent however it’s usually the latest patch for some program or another, not the illegal warez that Mr Mandelson thinks that I, as a p2p user, must be grabbing.
The actions of the corrupt MP Mr Mandelson have horrified me (again, oh and I’m not too happy with Alan Johnson either!) and if you have found this post through Google then you probably already know why and I expect you also already know that he is a sock puppet to the music industry. Maybe he really has no firm grasp of why his actions won’t work, despite so many warnings from industry experts such as TalkTalk, but why try and get a grip on such things if your pockets are being lined by industry fatcats?
Even MI5 are against this legislation and rightly so, because people such as myself will blog about this sort of issue and how to get around it.
Anyway, accusations aside, you are with Virgin Media and you are terrified that your packets might get sniffed? Well there is not a lot to be worried about quite yet and there are some precautions you can take.
Avoid Deep Packet Inspection
Dan Klein, media accounts director at Detica stated that “Encryption of the data packet would defeat us, We’re not going to put the processing power into defeating it.” – source
So you know what to do, enable your encryption! Bear in mind that the software Virgin Media are trialing, CView, will only look for p2p traffic from BitTorrent, Gnutella and eDonkey. I use UTorrent and a quick google gets you this, Enabling Encryption in Utorrent – I tried to find info about the others but no cigar, sorry! At the moment they are only observing copyrighted music torrents.
Wait There’s More
Now it’s worth noting that virgin media is not the only body that will be collecting data on your downloads, there are many organisations that gather information on illegal file sharers and I would heartily recommend you taking a look at Peer Block, the successor to Peer Guardian. It’s an amazing project, the application is easy to use and updates itself based on the latest compiled lists of corporate spys, it should stop these 99.99% of these organisations from getting your IP address, win.
Further Action
If you are in the UK and are concerned about this sort of thing then perhaps you should consider getting involved with or supporting the UK Pirate Party (they certainly need the help) and you never know, a few seats in parliament might shake things up a little, Labour have certainly lost my vote.
I leave you with this delightful video from Dan Bull, nicely put Dan.
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Here here, you get my vote Julian – another nice bit of code for China to nick from Detica, Green Dam Girl will be happy…
You can now sign a petition against Mr Mandelson’s bill via the link below
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/dontdisconnectus/