[145146] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: facebook spying on us?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Ihnen)
Thu Sep 29 09:38:57 2011
From: Greg Ihnen <os10rules@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <62349.1317302830@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:06:49 -0430
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Install Ghostery on your browsers and you'll see even more connections =
pages want to make behind the scenes to tracking sites etc. It's not =
just javascript.
Greg
On Sep 29, 2011, at 8:57 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:43:49 +0530, Glen Kent said:
>> 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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> Probably you visited other pages that have links to Facebook on them. =
Try
> installing NoScript or similar in your browser and don't allow =
Facebook javascript,
> and see if these connections evaporate.
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> Akamai is a content-caching service, just means somebody paid to have =
their
> content be (hopefully) nearer to you network-wise.
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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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> Two words: Big Honkin' Load Balancers. OK, maybe more than two words. =
;)
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