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antihaxor
February 13th, 2002, 05:16 PM
In a slick spindoctoring of the issue they claim its for "customer service". This is where the line should be drawn. They even admit they can store any bank account# and PIN. This is a little diffrent than redirecting a client to an appropiate server like Oblio was complaining about a couple of days ago. This is your isp storing everything you do. Comcast is the #3 isp in the world by the way.
dspeidel
February 13th, 2002, 05:51 PM
I've seen commercials (for Earthlink I think) in which they promise not track you. Earthlink as the right idea. Hopfully Comcast drops this obnoxious practice -before they buy out ATT broadband service
the_JinX
February 13th, 2002, 06:04 PM
this kinda thing makes u sick doesn't it....
KorpDeath
February 13th, 2002, 10:02 PM
There's a couple of lawsuits waiting to happen. Wait till the consumer advocacy groups get a hold of this.......
dspeidel
February 13th, 2002, 10:25 PM
Comcast just announced that they will stop doing this. See http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cn/20020213/tc_cn/comcast_to_stop_storing_web_users__data&cid=70
KorpDeath
February 13th, 2002, 10:41 PM
And who believes that?
ammo
February 13th, 2002, 10:42 PM
Sounds to me like this is just a simple case of (transparent) proxying and caching... This is not anything new... Caching is a widespread solution for accelerrating web browsing; Your workplace network most likely uses a proxy and noone's made a big deal out of it... Besides, unless they've done something really twisted (which would include sofisticated man-in-the-middle attacks), the proxying does NOT cache encrypted pages and transactions.
However I do admit that this *could* be requested by subpoena. Still, I think this as once again been blown out of proportion....
Ammo