| christophe barbé on Wed, 13 Feb 2002 20:39:25 -0500 |
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 08:20:44PM -0500, eric@lucii.org wrote: > > For those following the "Who needs Big Brother... I've got Comcast" > news story, there's a new twist: > > Yahoo news is reporting that Comcast has announced that they will stop > tracking users. > > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020214/ap_on_hi_te/internet_privacy_23 Sorry to hurt your moral but this news was already posted here (IIRC via a link to slashdot to a washington news). btw, I remember that two comcast parctices were discused here: . the mandatory proxy server which cache nothing (ie. which spy but doesn't improve the service provided to the user). . A spy software installed on the customer machine during the last upgrade (along the comcast logo in explorer). As far as I know only the first issue is supposedly solved. But even for the first issue, they never said that they will remove their proxy, they will just stop recording 'who did what' but they still have the hardware/software to do it and now you will not be able to notice if they decide to do it. Christophe > > <ASIDE> > I love the internet for just this reason. > A sleazy operator like <fill in the blank> starts screwin' over people > just because they can get away with it. The word gets out and spreads > like *wildfire* on the internet. It gets picked up by larger media > outlets. Pretty soon, the sleazy operator is backpedaling like a duck > at the precipice of Niagara Falls! > > In the past, if the newspapers or TV news didn't report it then it > might take years to be revealed. > > Sometime, if you are in a law library, look at a copy of the U.S. Code > prior to 1997. In title 50, section 1520 you'll find a law, now > repealed, that allowed the U.S. Government to conduct chemical and > biological weapon experiments - ON CIVILIANS. WITHOUT OUR KNOWLEDGE > OR CONSENT. Word got around. First it was in newsletters and emails. > Then, talk radio picked it up. Pretty soon, it was *widely* known but > not in the "mainstream" media... yet. > Then, quietly, the 105th congress passed a law that repealed that > provision of the law. > > Also, in testimony to Congress, the Army admitted to performing more > that 200 of these tests. > > That's the ones they admitted to. > > That's "just" the Army. > > Eternal vigilence has gotten a little easier in the last decade > thanks to the internet. > </ASIDE> > > Sic semper Comcast. > > > Eric > > -- > # Eric Allan Lucas > # I know you're out there. I can feel you now. > # I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. > # You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. > # I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. > # I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. > # I'm going to hang up this phone and then I'm going to show > # these people what you don't want them to see. > # I'm going to show them a world without you." - Neo - The Matrix > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug > -- Christophe Barbé <christophe.barbe@ufies.org> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life. --Faith Resnick Attachment:
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