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Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic for
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Wed May 14 18:48:58 2008
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 23:47:22 +0100
From: Simon Lockhart <simon@slimey.org>
To: Jake Matthews <jmatthews@cia.com>
In-Reply-To: <482B4C3D.7000209@cia.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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.
> Anyones thoughts on this?
There's a company called Phorm (www.phorm.com) trying to do this in the UK,
running some trials with some of the large broadband providers.
It hasn't gone down well at all...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/29/phorm_roundup/
Simon
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