[145139] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: facebook spying on us?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Mills)
Thu Sep 29 09:17:00 2011
In-Reply-To: <CAPLq3UOHKF3kSRkcqyjBJpJ3wLoJtrJG2ehqiiz1Mv3Sog8P=Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:16:36 -0400
From: Charles Mills <w3yni1@gmail.com>
To: Glen Kent <glen.kent@gmail.com>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Could be something related to the earlier cookie controversy that was
discussed.
I did dig too deeply into exactly what they were doing however.
Chuck
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Glen Kent <glen.kent@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I see that i have multiple TCP sessions established with facebook.
> They come up even after i reboot my laptop and dont login to facebook!
>
> D:\Documents and Settings\gkent>netstat -a | more
>
> Active Connections
>
> Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
> TCP gkent:3974 www-10-02-snc5.facebook.com:http ESTABLISHED
> TCP gkent:3977 www-11-05-prn1.facebook.com:http ESTABLISHED
> TCP gkent:3665
> a184-84-111-139.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com:http ESTABLISHED
>
> [clipped]
>
> Any idea why these connections are established (with facebook and
> akamaitechnologies) and how i can kill them? Since my laptop has
> several connections open with facebook, what kind of information is
> flowing there?
>
> I also wonder about the kind of servers facebook must be having to be
> able to manage millions of TCP connections that must be terminating
> there.
>
> Glen
>
>
