[104453] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu May 15 10:02:28 2008
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 09:58:23 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <EAA2CA79-6E3F-4A09-A095-00EABA3CB18A@puck.nether.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Thu, 15 May 2008 09:46:05 -0400
Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:
>
> On May 15, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> > I've found that using SSL for all my SMTP and IMAP transactions
> > and not entering personally identifying information into non-SSL
> > web pages greatly reduces the amount of harvesting results I see.
> >
> > As to Charter, I opt out by simply not purchasing anything from
> > them. It seems to work far better than bothering with their silly
> > cookie process.
>
> I think that's fine and all, but there are people where choice
> doesn't exist.
>
> I would chose FIOS (or a fios-like service) for my home internet.
> That choice does not exist.
>
> Verizon has not built that infrastructure in my state, nor does it
> appear they have any plans to.
>
> Where choice does not exist, and there is no high-speed duopoly to
> choose between, what would you do? Build your own infrastructure a
> few miles at a cost of $2-50+/foot?
>
The other day, the Wall Street Journal ran a brief piece on VPN
providers... The threat they had in mind was wireless hotspots, but
any sort of on-link evil can be dealt with that way.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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