@tqbf First they came for the small round rare-earth magnet sets

Thomas Ptacek posted this on Twitter. I was not sure of the context."First they came for the small round rare-earth magnet sets, and I said nothing." Then I read this news story about Mother Russia's new Internet Surveillance system: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/russia-surveillance/all/

"Most importantly, however, the new Roskomnadzor system introduces DPI (deep packet inspection) on a nationwide scale. Although DPI is not mentioned in the law, the Ministry of Communications — along with the biggest internet corporations active in Russia — concluded in August that the only way to implement the law was through deep packet inspection."