And how will the authors dev test that then?

it "will be entering into a consultation process to help those affected by the redundancies."

That's because they have to by law. https://www.gov.uk/redundant-your-rights/consultation

Looks to be a regurgitation of Joanna's paper http://blog.invisiblethings.or...

It affects 3.18 and later according to http://perception-point.io/201... rather than 3.8.

And how are they going to do DPI of every packet of every user? You just run the VPN on a 'standard' port (HTTP, FTP, etc) and then the ISP has to check the payload to catch you.

I plan to pay a few quid a year for a VPN. My ISP can then collect my metadata, it won't be terribly useful having only a single IP address and port.

Heretic! Nothing is more fun than 6502 assembler in 3.5 K of memory!

<pedant> 'The Lord of the Rings' is not a trilogy, it is a single novel published in three volumes. </pedant>

I appear to still have a copy on my fileserver

-rw-r--r-- 1 srowe users 2355976 Aug 27 2004 MSDUN13.EXE

I don't think I really need to hang on to so much junk...

That wasn't in the GA release, there was a Dial-Up Networking update that eventually got rolled into a Service Pack. Before that you have to install PPP drivers etc supplied by your ISP.

"shit umbrella", protect the team from the crap that comes from higher management.

That's not right, we all know that marketing people speak b*llocks.

It's called American English.

It's hard to say whether it quite fits the normal idea of a programming paradigm though.