[AusNOG] Govt wants ISPs to record user history

[phil colbourn]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Matthew Zobel <matthew.zobel at gmail.com>wrote:

> Does anyone else notice the gross hypocrisy here?
>
I did.

>   Conroy calls out Google for catching personal information on users, then
> the Government wants ISP to hold all this kind of information.  This
> Government is a shambles.
>
> Can I suggest '... possibly catching personal information ...'

If Google got anything, it was an occasional packet:

1. Most probably with a NAT IP address on the user's network - not
identifiable
2. SSID - not identifiable
3. Only unencrypted data
4. Since they were taking photos, it probably only happened when there was
good light, say 9:00 to 15:00 - this would be off-peak for most homes -
probably just a bunch of malware calling home or the odd SPAM-bot delivering
it's mail.
5. Possibly with a real internet IP address of the remote server, but
probably not a URL
6. Probably a few fragments of a HTTP request, maybe a DNS request/response,
maybe a SMTP/POP3 fragment (has anyone done the math to see how much data
they might have collected?)

The proposal seems to collect the ISP subscriber (identifying the
residence), URL, and probably every packet header.

But what good is a URL is you don't know what was on the page at that time?
... or do they already have that?

-- 
Phil

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