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Sonic.net's CEO On Why ISPs Should Only Keep User Logs Two Weeks
Sparrowvsrevolution writes "Dane Jasper's tiny Internet service provider Sonic.net briefly took the national spotlight last October, when it contested a Department of Justice order that it secretly hand over the data of privacy activist and WikiLeaks associate Jacob Appelbaum. But Sonic.net has actually been quietly implementing a much more fundamental privacy measure: For the past eighteen months it's only kept logs of user data for two weeks before deletion, compared with 18 to 36 months at Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner and other ISPs. In a lengthy Q&A, he explains how he came to the decision to limit logging after a series of shakedowns by copyright lawyers attempting to embarrass users who had downloaded porn films, and he argues that it's time all ISPs adopt the two-week rule."
So you have innuendo instead of facts? Suspicions rather than evidence?
Jesus christ you're a looney.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
I concur. Do you know how hard it is to evade bans with a static IP address? And with all the idiotic, irrelevant, asinine garbage that I am compelled by autism to post, these $3/m VPSes are starting to cost a lot!
Terrible business sense. Users are not customers anymore. Today big data is the commodity. You can (and should) monetize your logs. Otherwise you are a terrible CEO.
Watch this for example.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzS83BGdWco
Who logs in to gdm? Not I, said the duck.
You don't need privacy. If you're not willing to show the public every aspect of your life, then you're surely a terrorist or a criminal. We need to ban privacy for the good of the children, and to keep us all safe from terrorists!