[104449] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blake Pfankuch)
Thu May 15 08:32:38 2008
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 06:31:59 -0600
In-Reply-To: <0175611B-7DBF-42F6-8A40-D2BE95F47AA0@witbe.net>
From: "Blake Pfankuch" <bpfankuch@cpgreeley.com>
To: "Jean-Michel Planche" <jmp@witbe.net>, "Jake Matthews" <jmatthews@cia.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
I noticed this as well with a windows mobile device and activesync over the=
ail. Enforcing SSL communication seems to have fixed it, as I no longer g=
et these after doing that. Of course this assumes that your mail server do=
es not need plain text authentication. I noticed this a lot when I was fly=
ing back and forth from Houston and DFW out of Denver. Never identified th=
e culprit of who was harvesting but....
-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Michel Planche [mailto:jmp@witbe.net] =
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:47 PM
To: Jake Matthews
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic foradver=
tising?
In same spirit, something worst I think ...
If you are in some airport with a GSM/Wifi phone, you are going to =
receive a mail, from local Wifi provider to explain you how to reach =
his (local wifi) network.
Tested in Roissy / France, with iPhone. iPhone will switch from edge =
to wifi connection. I think that some application try to reach their =
server (like mail) and local provider sniff differents things (user =
name / mail sure but what about passwd ??) to send you back an email.
Interesting ...
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2.0 Monitoring : relevant End to End monitoring for critical app. and =
carrier class services
Le 14 mai 08 =E0 22:31, Jake Matthews a =E9crit :
> 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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