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[NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic for

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jake Matthews)
Wed May 14 16:32:32 2008

Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 16:31:57 -0400
From: Jake Matthews <jmatthews@cia.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

Apparently Charter is going to packetsniff its users and use that for 
commercial purposes.

Looks like the only way to somewhat opt out is by getting a cookie set 
at the below link - which is not only a dumb idea, but still - not even 
https.
http://connect.charter.com/cas/portal/settings/privacyoptout.aspx

Anyones thoughts on this?

-j


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