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Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic for advertising?
From: "John Menerick" <onewingaengel () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 15:19:34 -0700
Something Jon Devree and I were thinking about: How would they handle cookies the size of 1 MB or larger? Scary as it sounds, looks like a simple DOS attack waiting to happen :\ JOhn Menerick On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Jake Matthews <jmatthews () cia com> wrote:
Majdi S. Abbas wrote:On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 04:31:57PM -0400, Jake Matthews wrote:Apparently Charter is going to packetsniff its users and use that for commercial purposes.I think you'd find they'd run pretty far afoul of 18 USC 2511 for that, without prior consent (18 USC 2511 2) (c)). I looked at that page, and as far as I can tell, they are just referring to web ads, likely placed on their consumer portal site. Where do you get the notion that they are intercepting traffic? Everything I see refers to a third party ad network, with no subscriber data provided by charter. i.e. a typical advertisers tracking cookie. Using another cookie to opt out of the first cookie isn't unusual, since it's the same mechanism that would be involved in the first place. In any case, trying to correlate captured traffic to a cookie that would only be exposed in web traffic and to the site that set it, would not be reliably possible. --msahttp://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20461817-HSI-Charter-to-monitor-surfing-insert-its-own-targeted-ads Apparently, not just their portal. _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list NANOG () nanog org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog
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- Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic foradvertising?, (continued)
- Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic foradvertising? Owen DeLong (May 15)
- Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic foradvertising? Jared Mauch (May 15)
- Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic foradvertising? Steven M. Bellovin (May 15)
- Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic foradvertising? Christopher Morrow (May 15)
- Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic foradvertising? Luke S Crawford (May 15)
- Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic foradvertising? Christopher Morrow (May 15)
- Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic foradvertising? Steven M. Bellovin (May 15)
- Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic foradvertising? Christopher Morrow (May 15)
- Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic for advertising? Jake Matthews (May 14)
- Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic for advertising? John Menerick (May 14)
- Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic for advertising? Deepak Jain (May 14)
- Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic for advertising? Patrick Clochesy (May 14)
- Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic for advertising? Rich Kulawiec (May 15)