[145142] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: facebook spying on us?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alain Hebert)
Thu Sep 29 09:23:55 2011
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:23:42 -0400
From: Alain Hebert <ahebert@pubnix.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <B7BD8540-1F6D-4754-8D78-51ADD4A9FDB0@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ahebert@pubnix.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
( Being this is a Windows box)
Want to scare yourself silly?
. Power off the PC;
. Plug it a switch;
. Mirror the PC port into a Unix box running Wireshark;
. Boot the PC
Enjoy all the info leakages from all the apps you installed over
the years.
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On 09/29/11 09:19, Eric Clark wrote:
> 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.
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> On Sep 29, 2011, at 6:13 AM, Glen Kent wrote:
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>> 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
>>
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