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Nope - as I recall that was the ISPs defense “we don’t know what people are sharing since we can’t look into packets”



The first version of tcpdump dates from '88[0]. And I'm not sure it was even the first sniffer out there, quite likely not.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcpdump




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