I work for a US defense contractor. I make deep packet inspection tools that live as a bump in the wire. On the unclassified side of things we can modify google earth map tiles, we record or modify every twitter and Facebook post you make. We can modify every ip address in every packet at line rate. We can watermark every image you look at on the web. And that's not even the cool stuff
What motivates you, at a personal level, to do this kind of work?
Well, I work with DPI tools in the mobie world where carriers might want to rate-limit video sites or ban certain sites or charge more for some sites.
Can you describe in more detail how your equipment can reach line speed and what vendor/third party tools are used?
Very interesting. Now prove you're not a troll.
So a US offense contractor, then.
Can you provide any advice on how to protect oneself?