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Which ISPs Are Spying On You?

Posted by kdawson on from the what-do-they-keep-and-how-long-do-they-keep-it dept.

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.

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  1. Sure... We spy..... by bagboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    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...

  2. Re:Noisy clickstream by mh1997 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.
  3. Re:Rogers Slogan is "Don't be not evil." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

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

  4. AOL by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  5. Re:IRC logs by SpaceLifeForm · · Score: 2, Funny
    You might check here.

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  6. Re:sAKafdfDds6SFALGI5as4fdf564saDDdaASDSsdaf by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    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.

  7. Time of Day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

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

  8. Re:Noisy clickstream by Lehk228 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  9. Re:sAKafdfDds6SFALGI5as4fdf564saDDdaASDSsdaf by Frogbert · · Score: 3, Funny

    HOW is this insightful? wtf?
    kkskdmJJvnjAJnfnUwevPKaslaALmQMmkvkKMDMtnkemMmkSKm EMmskkdlOPIBnNWNu87wjjdGHW
  10. 010000100110100101101110011000010111001001111001 by Barkmullz · · Score: 3, Funny

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  11. Re:01000010011010010110111001100001011100100111100 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

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