Creepy article from MSNBC about an Australian company that is marketing a software package to ISPs that has the ability to monitor every packet of data on the web, in an effort to find and block child pornography. I’m no fan of kiddie porn, of course, but I find the privacy aspects of a wiretap on my internet connection none-too-pleasant. Especially as someone who works in the tech industry, for tech companies that also are ISPs and whose competitors may also own ISPs. Seems like a bad idea.

The funny thing, though, is the blatant self-promotion of the software company that makes the product:

“I don’t think it takes many voices before the Internet industry separates out those who are prepared to build a business on the trafficking of child sexual exploitation, said Michael Speck, Brilliant Digital’s commercial manager in charge of law enforcement products.

Um, Mr. Spark, that pretty much sounds like your business.