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Re: facebook spying on us?


From: Eric Clark <cabenth () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:19:27 -0700

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




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