[104437] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jake Matthews)
Wed May 14 17:19:56 2008
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 17:19:26 -0400
From: Jake Matthews <jmatthews@cia.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20080514204949.GA91321@puck.nether.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Majdi S. Abbas wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 04:31:57PM -0400, Jake Matthews wrote:
>
>> Apparently Charter is going to packetsniff its users and use that for
>> commercial purposes.
>>
>
> I think you'd find they'd run pretty far afoul of 18 USC 2511
> for that, without prior consent (18 USC 2511 2) (c)).
>
> I looked at that page, and as far as I can tell, they are just
> referring to web ads, likely placed on their consumer portal site.
>
> Where do you get the notion that they are intercepting traffic?
> Everything I see refers to a third party ad network, with no subscriber
> data provided by charter. i.e. a typical advertisers tracking
> cookie.
>
> Using another cookie to opt out of the first cookie isn't
> unusual, since it's the same mechanism that would be involved in the
> first place.
>
> In any case, trying to correlate captured traffic to a
> cookie that would only be exposed in web traffic and to the site that
> set it, would not be reliably possible.
>
> --msa
>
>
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20461817-HSI-Charter-to-monitor-surfing-insert-its-own-targeted-ads
Apparently, not just their portal.
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