[AusNOG] Telstra's Texan Teaser - Tin Foil Stetsun anyone?

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

It's not clear:

(a) Why this is any better as an explanation?
(b) That this clarifies if this is legal - harvesting information from a telecommunications service AND passing that to a 3rd party offshore seems marginal at best.  Certainly as some of these links are not ones that, say, are visible to a search engine or public, and thus aren't that anonymous.  

"However, Telstra has since clarified that the activity was conducted ahead of a launch of a voluntary web filtering offering for mobile users."

Except that this isn't voluntary - this is something that has been turned on without warning, without the ability to opt out.

MMC


On 26/06/2012, at 2:00 PM, James Hutchinson wrote:

> An update for those interested:
>  
> http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/306441,telstra-tracks-users-to-build-web-filter.aspx
>  
> James Hutchinson
> Journalist
> iTnews
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> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Shaun Ewing
> Sent: Tuesday, 26 June 2012 9:54 AM
> To: Aaron Wigley
> Cc: 'ausnog at lists.ausnog.net'
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Telstra's Texan Teaser - Tin Foil Stetsun anyone?
>  
>  
> On 26/06/2012, at 9:28 AM, Aaron Wigley wrote:
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> 
> As of 09:18 AEST, we are still seeing this duplicated clickstream traffic
> from
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> I've just done a co-ordinated test with Seamus Ryan against two hosts that we respectively control.
>  
> If I hit both, there's nothing beyond my initial request.
>  
> If Seamus hits both, the request is immediately followed up by a host in Rackspace.
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> Could it be rolling out based on location? I'm currently in Alexandria in Sydney.
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