Internet at risk from "wiretapping", says web inventor

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    Date: 
    11 March 2009

    The ever-increasing power of computers that is helping the internet to grow is also threatening its future. That was the warning deliver by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, and online security specialists at the Houses of Parliament in London today.

    Their concerns are centred on deep packet inspection (DPI), a technique that makes it possible to peer inside packets of data transmitted across the internet.