Which ISPs Are Spying On You?

firesquirt sends us an article from Wired about a survey they conducted to determine major ISPs' data retention and other privacy practices. Over a period of two months, four national ISPs would not give Wired the time of day; and another four answered some of their questions in a fashion not altogether reassuring.

Sure... We spy.....

[bagboy]

because as a Sr. Network Eng for an ISP with thousands of users I have oh so much time to devote to tracking down every website you visit. Please, even if packet sniffing and tcpdumps are used, most ISPs can't afford manpower for intensive tracking... Maybe the big ones, but medium to small...

Re:Noisy clickstream

[mh1997]

Here's an idea: Develop a web browser extention that does a random web crawl

It would be my luck that my browser would hit every child porn site on the web.

Re:Rogers Slogan is "Don't be not evil."

[Anonymous Coward]

In other words, they'll shop you, and you'll be truly rogered.

AOL

[Shadow Wrought]

Even though I never had an account with them, for the longest time they always seemed to know where I lived because they kept sending me CDs. Spooky.

Re:IRC logs

[SpaceLifeForm]

You might check here [nsa.gov].

Re:sAKafdfDds6SFALGI5as4fdf564saDDdaASDSsdaf

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm so bored that I actually took the time to visualize the path your left hand took as you dragged it all over your keyboard while intermittently going for the shift key with your right. I bet it sounded cool. I also bet your roommate heard it and thinks you're insane.

Time of Day

[Anonymous Coward]

four national ISPs would not give Wired the time of day
What, they blocked port 123?

Re:Noisy clickstream

[Lehk228]

then don't have the bot start from your bookmarks folder.

Re:sAKafdfDds6SFALGI5as4fdf564saDDdaASDSsdaf

[Frogbert]

HOW is this insightful? wtf?

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[Barkmullz]

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[Anonymous Coward]

Communicate in binary. They will be unable to distinguish your message from all the other 1's and 0's. Clever, uh?