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

[Matt Perkins]

I wonder what the impact on battery time is on leaving my vpn up all the 
time.

Matt.


On 26/06/12 2:49 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
> 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 <http://www.itnews.com.au/>
>> *From:*ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net 
>> <mailto: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 <mailto: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:
>>
>>
>> As of 09:18 AEST, we are still seeing this duplicated clickstream traffic
>> from
>> 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.
>> Could it be rolling out based on location? I'm currently in 
>> Alexandria in Sydney.
>>
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