Maybe this will help:
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
AT&T and Other I.S.P.s May Be Getting Ready to Filter - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
Encrypted filed sharing systems immune to such packet filtering other than to block them because the ISP can't figure out what they are already exist and will continue to expand and evolve. Steganographic techniques to alleviate that problem by making them look like normal allowed traffic will be used. Encryption, deception, misdirection, and just plain shiftiness will become the average netizen's every day experience and modus operandi.
HOWEVER, the average American is totally unaware of how to do these things without goodly study online of the techniques now available, and the present complexities make it not worth while. So how do you reconcile the two facts? Simple. Just as Internet usage at the dawn of the transition from DARPANET to Internet was complex and required technical skill and no longer does, so too will the techie geeks conquer these usability issues and make it as easy as point, double-click, done.
Right now, use of encrypting hard drive controllers and boot loaders is a bit beyond even the otherwise very thorough terrorists of Al Queda. In a few years, thanks to the government and big business, politics and influence, and the paranoia which drives and governs them so often, such things will come with the machine when you buy it. Enter your set-up passwords and there you go. Everything encrypted in multiple layers making the ultimate breaking of captured data take longer than the Earth has left before the Sun enters its red giant phase.
EVERYONE WILL BY DEFAULT HAVE ALL DATA ENCRYPTED AT ALL TIMES WHETHER ON MEDIA OR TRANSMITTED ACROSS NETWORKS. THE VERY SOFTWARE VIEWERS THEY USE WILL NEVER LEAVE THE DATA IN ANY UNENCRYPTED FORMAT AT ALL WHERE IT CAN BE CAPTURED.
Just as the proliferation of viruses and spyware has resulted in a large industry of point and click anti-virus solutions causing computers to be vastly more secured today than they were in the past, so too will these continuing encroachments on the privacy of the populace drive a defensive response by the people towards embracing hiding their data no matter what it is.
If you think getting at hidden and encrypted data is hard for law enforcement now, wait till they can't tell a recipe from a communication to bomb a government facility. The very government which used fear of that very eventuality as an excuse to infringe our rights will be one third of the reason that in the future their problems become multiplied beyond exponentially.
The second third will be the cretins of AT&T, the RIAA and MPAA, and our law industry all of whom are either living in fear of lawsuits, or living in slathering anticipation of lawsuits.
The final third will be the people themselves who are simultaneously too stupid to realize what venal, dishonest, unprincipled, unethical, immoral weasels they've put in power in both government and business, and too stupid to stop them from passing whatever laws and colluding to create whatever agreements they feel best for their own selfish interests.
Never mind too stupid to stop selling themselves and each other crushing hopelessness that they seek to fill with never ending gluttony for senseless, mindless, vacuous shit that passes for entertainment.
On come the cyber wars and the static leveling.
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