[145140] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: facebook spying on us?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Clark)
Thu Sep 29 09:19:39 2011
From: Eric Clark <cabenth@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPLq3UOHKF3kSRkcqyjBJpJ3wLoJtrJG2ehqiiz1Mv3Sog8P=Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:19:27 -0700
To: Glen Kent <glen.kent@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
did you start your browser before looking at your connection list?
However, you're on a window's box, so it wouldn't surprise me if they =
helpfully started ie for you....
If you didn't start the browser you use to go to facebook (and its not =
ie), its fairly interesting.
On Sep 29, 2011, at 6:13 AM, Glen Kent wrote:
> Hi,
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> 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!
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> D:\Documents and Settings\gkent>netstat -a | more
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> Active Connections
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> 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
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> [clipped]
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> Glen
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