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On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 08:39:00PM -0500, christophe barb? wrote:
> 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.
Well, I can tell you that their proxy snoop does add some headers
that make it relatively easy to pick up on. Now, I'm not saying
that they can't just easily turn the headers off and therefore
fool everyone into thinking they're not snooping or that they
couldn't just install a traffic sniffer, but for now it does appear
that they actually have stopped snooping (in my area at least).
Tim
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