full-disclosure - Comcast using IPS to protect the Internet from their home user clients?

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Message-ID: <E075A187B11EED409B12D00100CAAD6639DD@ntserver.meltemi.local>
From: Jos at meltemi.co.uk (Jos Osborne)
Subject: Comcast using IPS to protect the Internet from their home user clients?

>If the ISP's start filtering traffic, scanning E-mail for viruses, etc,
>they are getting close to censorship in my eyes.  They're also removing
>themselves from "common carrier" status in the eyes of the law too I would
>think.  Make those services OPTIONAL for those that want it, great, I'm all
>for it.  But if I want a link out to the internet, that isn't filtered or
>anything I should be able to get it.
>
>Ex

I agree - this is a little like the post office opening up everyone's mail to check for chain letters, suspicious packages, illegal things like photocopied documents etc... If that happened there would be a public outcry. 
And anyone who thinks that they have the time to do it needs to get their tinfoil hat adjusted cos' it's squeezing their brain.

Jos