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Hawaiian Bill Would Force ISPs to Track Users' Web Histories For 2 Years

Posted by timothy on from the honi-ko'u-'elemu dept.

New submitter mazinger writes "In Hawaii, a bill has been proposed to retain data on Internet users and the sites they visit. Apparently, there is also no requirement for a warrant to obtain the information from service providers. The bill affects not only ISPs but also coffee shops and anyone providing Internet access."

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  1. Re:I'll predict how the logs will look by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    yeah, one problem with that....

    http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=308290
    http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/09/lulzsec-hacker-exposed-service-he-thought-would-hide-him/42895/
    http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/threads/363171-HideMyAss.com-Doesn-t-Hide-Logs-From-the-FBI
    http://www.hackingne.ws/hidemyass-helped-fbi-to-arrest-a-lulzsec-member.html/

    They have NO Qualms about handing over all that "personal" information you were trying to protect with no warrant to any government agency asking for it....

  2. Not possible by Charliemopps · · Score: 5, Informative

    I work for an ISP and was involved in a project in which we were just trying to monitor DHCP requests from users for a study... The size of the log files were upwards of 6gigabytes per DAY. If we actually tried to track and time stamp every IP they hit? It wouldn't even be remotely possible. The amount of data and the numbers of people and software required to pull it off would dwarf our entire operation. And that's BEFORE everyone starts messing with the system. People could just set up scripts to randomly ping IPs all day long and it would devastate any logging system in short order. There's no way the ISPs would put up with this.