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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Could it be that telstra are passing
your browsing history in real time to a marketing company who are
then looking at the site to gather some sort of marking info on
the site you were just looking at.<br>
Would explain why they are not looking at there own cache. <br>
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On 25/06/12 2:40 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:2BF54066-810C-4FCA-8DEE-3B84AF9838BA@mmc.com.au"
type="cite"><base href="x-msg://890/">FYI:
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<div>https as well - although it's just touching the root of the
website but then follows a redirect.</div>
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<div>MMC</div>
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<div>On 25/06/2012, at 9:20 AM, Eric Pinkerton wrote:</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
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font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Ausnoggers..<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
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font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Whilst
there is a lot of tin foil hattery and other
spasticity on this WP Thread,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1935438"
style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1935438</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- the
questions it throws up have made me curious, esp
given Telstra’s official response in the following
article “<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/305928,telstra-says-its-not-spying-on-users.aspx"
style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/305928,telstra-says-its-not-spying-on-users.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><i><o:p> </o:p></i></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><i>“<span
style="color: black; background-image: initial;
background-attachment: initial;
background-origin: initial; background-clip:
initial; background-color: white;
background-position: initial initial;
background-repeat: initial initial; ">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 -<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>it is
a normal network operation”<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>NOTHING
TO SEE HEAR MOVE ALONG.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><i><span
style="color: black; background-image: initial;
background-attachment: initial;
background-origin: initial; background-clip:
initial; background-color: white;
background-position: initial initial;
background-repeat: initial initial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><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></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span
lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><i><span
style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); " lang="EN-US">Legit
request..<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><i><span
style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); " lang="EN-US">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></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><i><span
style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96);
background-image: initial;
background-attachment: initial;
background-origin: initial; background-clip:
initial; background-color: white;
background-position: initial initial;
background-repeat: initial initial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><i><span
style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96);
background-image: initial;
background-attachment: initial;
background-origin: initial; background-clip:
initial; background-color: white;
background-position: initial initial;
background-repeat: initial initial; ">Curious
identical request follows…<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><i><span
style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); " lang="EN-US">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:
rgb(0, 32, 96); background-image: initial;
background-attachment: initial;
background-origin: initial; background-clip:
initial; background-color: white;
background-position: initial initial;
background-repeat: initial initial; "><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span
style="color: black; background-image: initial;
background-attachment: initial; background-origin:
initial; background-clip: initial;
background-color: white; background-position:
initial initial; background-repeat: initial
initial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span
style="color: black; background-image: initial;
background-attachment: initial; background-origin:
initial; background-clip: initial;
background-color: white; background-position:
initial initial; background-repeat: initial
initial; ">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”.<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>To
me normal would be to say pull this info straight
from the proxy server.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span
style="color: black; background-image: initial;
background-attachment: initial; background-origin:
initial; background-clip: initial;
background-color: white; background-position:
initial initial; background-repeat: initial
initial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span
style="color: black; background-image: initial;
background-attachment: initial; background-origin:
initial; background-clip: initial;
background-color: white; background-position:
initial initial; background-repeat: initial
initial; ">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></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Also
why is there a black helicopter hovering above me?<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">So
many questions….<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Discuss!<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm;
margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">E<o:p></o:p></div>
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