[Cryptography] BBC to deploy detection vans to snoop on internet users

[james hughes]

> On Aug 9, 2016, at 8:08 AM, Dave Howe <davehowe.pentesting at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> From a moderately different point of view - my understanding was that
> this change granted RIPA powers to the BBC's fee-demanding subsidiary,
> and of course once captured, RIPA could *also* be used to demand the key
> to decrypt that wifi traffic….

(Not knowing that much about RIPA) but they don’t need to. 

For streaming, I imagine that the timing and the length of the packets is usually enough to identify the movie. Same as the oscillator leaking letting you know the channel. 

Once you accuse someone, it is their problem to pay up or deny.