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. > > --msa > > http://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
