Conspiracy Dangers: Deep Packet Inspection

I think we need to be careful not to look for conspiracies where there are none. For example, the following tweet could be taken to imply US involvement.

waelabbas Wael Abbas
AJE confirms, Egypt uses - US technology - Deep Packet Inspection - to spy on activists on the Internet

Firewall technologies have become very advanced and have legitimate uses in the commercial arena. I'd put the blame on the Mubarak regime for using technology for inappropriate use.

See Wikipedia concerning deep packet inspection...

On the other hand, what is important is to understand how much information can be tracked and what that means to your personal security.