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Canadian ISP Shoulder Surfing
1nfamous writes "Canada's Largest ISP, Bell Sympatico, has informed its customers that it intends to 'monitor or investigate content or your use of your service provider's networks and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy any laws, regulations or other governmental request.' The new customer service agreement is effective June 15, 2006."
start your encryptors.
So much for "sympathy"....they need to change their name from "Bell Sympatico" to "Bell Antipatico"
But then again...it is a Bell company....after the AT&T thing, I expect nothing less.
See, there's the difference between America and Canada.
We make sure that the customer's don't know when we're spying on them.
The new customer service agreement is effective June 15, 2006.
Retroactive by 13 days? Isn't that just a kick in the face. Sure, you can cancel right now, but then they'll just look through that data out of spite. After all, you're no longer a customer and they no longer have to abide by their privacy policy.
Best to "forget" them, then...
Ignore this signature. By order.
HTTP:
HTTPS:
Someone correct me if I screw this up...
On Slashdot, I can pretty much guarantee this... =)
Bob: Hi, I'm Bob Mackenzie, this is my Big Brother Doug.
Doug: How's it going eh?
Bob: Not good, eh. Cuz, we still haven't gotten our two-four for findin' that mouse in the beer bottle yet, have we?
Doug: No, eh. It was like, the thing that is in Bottle 101 is the worst thing in the world.
Bob: But didn't we make Strange Brew in 1983, not 1984, which was like, one year later eh?
Doug: Oh, take off!
Wow, Stuff like this makes me so glad that I'm an American where we aren't subject to this kind of wholesale violation of our privacy.
Alex, I'll take keybindings not used by Emacs for $400....
All hail Big Beaver.
- - - "Some people hate the English. I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers."
What do you MEAN you are upset we sold your first born, moved a family of migrants into your living room, attached your bank account that will be emptied from now till judgment day and are holding you liable for that parking fine (plus interest) from 1947 in Alberta? After all you did click "Yes" on the EULA!
- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
I think /. should be HTTPS, I mean come on, with all the conspiracy theorists here it makes perfect sense...
--Valthan
Well, now it's too late. Total Information Awareness is upon us and all of our communications by phone/cell/computer are being listened in on and filtered through. There really is nowhere go but downhill. You watch. Within 5 years all foreigners visiting the US will have to have GPS enabled chip implants. Within 10 all prisoners will have them. Within 15 it will be a Felony for any US citizen to remove/disable their chip implant. Anyone want to join me while I go live in cave somewhere?
No cos the cave will have cameras in it, duh.
Chicken fried butter sticks? Do
I'm thinking of having the computer generate random keys for everything I do. That way even I won't know the key, so I will be safe from myself, all of my data will be locked down, safe, and inaccessible to anyone, even me. Let them try to get THAT data.....
My brain is overly lubricated