Homeland Security to use its Einstein technology on private networks
• news.cnet.com/If it can perform deep packet inspection to prevent botnets from accessing certain Web pages, for instance, could it also be used to prevent a human from accessing illegal pornography, copyright-infringing music, or offshore gambling sites?




Deep packet inspection relies on using heuristics to measure predictable patterns. This is a fairly trivial thing to overcome, it just involves increasing the noise:signal ratio to blur out the patterns. In other words, this technology is only going to cause people to waste a lot of additional bandwidth to ensure their privacy.