Where I work we use a proxy for this functionality (SQUID) as a company CYA type of thing (along with access controls and the like, squid rocks!) Most ISPs already use proxy caching to alleviate their bandwidth usage so keeping the logs of what sites everybody visits would not be hard in the least.
There really is no EASY way around this. You can try to influence the person responsible for keeping the logs (kind of like how I tell squid not to log any web traffic coming off of MY PC at work, I guess I'm easy to corrupt when its my own interests that I have at heart) or try funneling all of your traffic through an ipsec tunnel going to some remote location, so that its logged to that remote user instead of you.
Hardly seems worth it. I guess if you could make your browser sit there and download random pages all day long you can at least wreck the S/N ratio so someone really has to dig to see what you're actually looking at. I don't know how effective that would be if "they" don't get overloaded by the volume of data that systems like echelon deal with however.
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Where I work we use a proxy for this functionality (SQUID) as a company CYA type of thing (along with access controls and the like, squid rocks!) Most ISPs already use proxy caching to alleviate their bandwidth usage so keeping the logs of what sites everybody visits would not be hard in the least.
There really is no EASY way around this. You can try to influence the person responsible for keeping the logs (kind of like how I tell squid not to log any web traffic coming off of MY PC at work, I guess I'm easy to corrupt when its my own interests that I have at heart) or try funneling all of your traffic through an ipsec tunnel going to some remote location, so that its logged to that remote user instead of you.
Hardly seems worth it. I guess if you could make your browser sit there and download random pages all day long you can at least wreck the S/N ratio so someone really has to dig to see what you're actually looking at. I don't know how effective that would be if "they" don't get overloaded by the volume of data that systems like echelon deal with however.