<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 August 2014 20:13, Ben Grubb <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bgrubb@fairfaxmedia.com.au" target="_blank">bgrubb@fairfaxmedia.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<span>They also want "information necssary to identifiy the type of communication", including "the type of service used"<div><br></div>
<div>That sounds like port information to me.</div></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Port is one way, and not a very effective one. It's possible to tunnel plenty of data over things like SSH or even HTTPS (or even non-encrypted services ports) and "hide" what the traffic is really doing if all that's used to determine the traffic type is the port. You don't even have to tunnel it - there's nothing to stop me setting up a web server that responds perfectly well to web requests on non-standard ports.</div>
<div><br></div><div>To effectively meet the government's requirements will require more than just reporting the source and destination ports used.</div></div></div></div>