Our ISP does not collect (nor obviously sell) customer information/traffic. People volunteer all of their information on Facebook/Twitter/etc already, I'm not sure I see a concern.
On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 9:07 AM Tom Beecher <beec...@beecher.cc> wrote: > I did see an article about Team Cymru selling netflow data from ISPs to >> governments though. >> > > Team Cymru sold the same thing to the FBI Cyber Crimes division that any > of us could purchase if we wanted to pay for it. > > On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 8:52 AM Rishi Panthee <rishipant...@ryamer.com> > wrote: > >> I’ve got Akvorado and netflow to identify where traffic comes in/goes to >> so we can improve our peering and make less traffic go via transit. I did >> see an article about Team Cymru selling netflow data from ISPs to >> governments though. >> https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3z9a/fbi-bought-netflow-data-team-cymru-contract >> >> >> Rishi Panthee >> Ryamer LLC >> Https://ryamer.com >> rishipant...@ryamer.com >> >> >> On May 15, 2023, at 5:59 PM, Michael Thomas <m...@mtcc.com> wrote: >> >> >> And maybe try to monetize it? I'm pretty sure that they can be compelled >> to do that, but do they do it for their own reasons too? Or is this way too >> much overhead to be doing en mass? (I vaguely recall that netflow, for >> example, can make routers unhappy if there is too much "flow"). >> >> Obviously this is likely to depend on local laws but since this is NANOG >> we can limit it to here. >> >> Mike >> >> >>