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Re:Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System by tgragnato on Thursday March 11, 2021 @08:04PM (#26431103)
Rest sure things like masscan and file sharing will be singled out and excluded from long term storage. If I recall correctly there is a process called massive volume reduction by which you filter out “uninteresting stuff”.

It’s not a bad idea, but you’ll need something more sophisticated.

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Re:Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System by gruez on Thursday March 11, 2021 @08:57PM (#26431440)
>If I recall correctly there is a process called massive volume reduction by which you filter out “uninteresting stuff”.

So all you have to do to avoid surveillance is to make a bunch of connections so the system gets overwhelmed and ignores you?

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Re:Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System by lupire on Thursday March 11, 2021 @11:21PM (#26432172)
No. It drops the junk and tags you as an person of interest.
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Re:Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System by jjbinx007 on Friday March 12, 2021 @03:06AM (#26433301)
Then criminals should focus on what that non interesting stuff is likely to be and exploit that.

Terrorists (as well as a CIA director) have for years used a simple trick to communicate without leaving suspicious looking metadata: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2012/11/12...

I find this type of legislation works like DVD copy protection: the innocent and non tech savvy will be disproportionately affected and it won't do anything to deter those with sufficient knowledge.

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