Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic for advertising?

2008-05-15 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:47:22PM +0100, Simon Lockhart wrote: There's a company called Phorm (www.phorm.com) trying to do this in the UK, running some trials with some of the large broadband providers. Phorm has been linked to the Russian Business Network (RBN), which is unsurprising given

[NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic for advertising?

2008-05-14 Thread Jake Matthews
Apparently Charter is going to packetsniff its users and use that for commercial purposes. Looks like the only way to somewhat opt out is by getting a cookie set at the below link - which is not only a dumb idea, but still - not even https.

Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic for advertising?

2008-05-14 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
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

Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic for advertising?

2008-05-14 Thread Jake Matthews
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

Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic for advertising?

2008-05-14 Thread Patrick Clochesy
- Original Message - From: Deepak Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jake Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 3:30:42 PM (GMT-0800) America/Los_Angeles Subject: Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic for advertising? http

Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic for advertising?

2008-05-14 Thread Tony Patti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regulation could address this, a differentiated service could address this, but this smacks of paying for a service to then get additional ads sent to you. (like everytime you dialed a number into your Skype for Pizza Delivery, they sent you to their paid-Pizza