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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Ausnoggers..<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Whilst there is a lot of tin foil hattery and other spasticity on this WP Thread, <a href="http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1935438">http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1935438</a> - the questions it throws up have made me curious, esp given Telstra’s official response in the following article “<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><a href="http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/305928,telstra-says-its-not-spying-on-users.aspx">http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/305928,telstra-says-its-not-spying-on-users.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><i>“<span style='color:black;background:white'>But in a short statement, Telstra’s senior media boss Craig Middleton said the company’s wireless network management assured that “there is nothing untoward in what the Whirlpool member has observed - <b>it is a normal network operation” </b>NOTHING TO SEE HEAR MOVE ALONG.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>In short, if you make a request to a web server on port 80 from a Telstra mobile, you’ll see a request immediately after your legit request from the Telstra gateway that originates from a US IP address hosted at Rackspace.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><i><span lang=EN-US style='color:#002060'>Legit request..<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><i><span lang=EN-US style='color:#002060'>58.163.xxx.xxx - - [24/Jun/2012:23:12:09 +0000] "GET /test101 HTTP/1.1" 404 464 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9B206 Safari/7534.48.3"<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><i><span style='color:#002060;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><i><span style='color:#002060;background:white'>Curious identical request follows…<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><i><span lang=EN-US style='color:#002060'>50.57.190.97 - - [24/Jun/2012:23:12:09 +0000] "GET /test101 HTTP/1.0" 404 526 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0"</span></i><b><i><span style='color:#002060;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black;background:white'>Whilst I accept this is probably benign, and can think of several reasons why the output of such a process might be of value to Telstra, I find myself less convinced than a certain senior media boss seems to be that this is “<i>a normal network operation”. </i>To me normal would be to say pull this info straight from the proxy server.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black;background:white'>Also, just to be awkward, I am curious as to why a cloud provider, would be using what looks a lot like a cluster of VPS’s in someone else’s cloud based out of Texas ;-)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Also why is there a black helicopter hovering above me? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So many questions….<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Discuss!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>E<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html><br><p>Message protected by MailGuard: e-mail anti-virus, anti-spam and content filtering.<br /><a href="http://www.mailguard.com.au/mg">http://www.mailguard.com.au/mg</a></p>
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