Re: facebook spying on us?

[Alain Hebert <ahebert () pubnix net>]

 ( 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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Alain Hebert                                ahebert () pubnix net
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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.
>
>
>
> On Sep 29, 2011, at 6:13 AM, Glen Kent 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