[123668] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Fri Mar 12 14:36:21 2010
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:34:52 -0800
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
--- smb@cs.columbia.edu wrote:
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
On Mar 12, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
> It requires giving your address.
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>
> Nah, no real address needed. Just use 123 elm street abbeville alabama
> 36310. That's the first zip code I found on a site... ;-)
Putting in a fake address renders your data useless.
Now -- under the Privacy Act, if they're collecting addresses I believe they had to do a Privacy Impact Assessment. ---------------------------------------------
I don't like giving my address out to anyone that asks for it. I just wanted to sniff the traffic and see what was going on. I wasn't too concerned with being a valid data point. Cmon, I believe you know some security stuff and why I might chose to do that... ;-)
scott
ps. there's a helluva delay going on on the list today...
