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Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer () mauigateway com>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:34:52 -0800
--- smb () cs columbia edu wrote: From: Steven Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu> On Mar 12, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
It requires giving your address. ----------------------------------------------- Nah, no real address needed. Just use 123 elm street abbeville alabama 36310. That's the first zip code I found on a site... ;-)
Putting in a fake address renders your data useless. Now -- under the Privacy Act, if they're collecting addresses I believe they had to do a Privacy Impact Assessment. --------------------------------------------- I don't like giving my address out to anyone that asks for it. I just wanted to sniff the traffic and see what was going on. I wasn't too concerned with being a valid data point. Cmon, I believe you know some security stuff and why I might chose to do that... ;-) scott ps. there's a helluva delay going on on the list today...
Current thread:
- Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool, (continued)
- Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool Dan White (Mar 12)
- RE: FCC releases Internet speed test tool Peter Kranz (Mar 12)
- Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool Nate Itkin (Mar 12)
- Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool Fred Baker (Mar 12)
- Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool charles (Mar 12)
- Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool Antonio Querubin (Mar 12)
- Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool Scott Weeks (Mar 12)
- Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool Steven Bellovin (Mar 12)
- Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool Larry Sheldon (Mar 12)
- Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool Sean Donelan (Mar 12)
- Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool Steven Bellovin (Mar 12)
- Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool Scott Weeks (Mar 12)