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

[Matt Didcoe]

The new offering will be called "Smart Controls" by the way - Clause 27 of the terms and conditions for data services was added today (http://www.telstra.com.au/customer-terms/download/document/dataservices.pdf) - similar wording can be found in Part F (Managing Calls) - Clause 16

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From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Matthew Moyle-Croft
Sent: Tuesday, 26 June 2012 12:50 PM
To: James Hutchinson
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Telstra's Texan Teaser - Tin Foil Stetsun anyone?

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
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From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net]<mailto:[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net]> On Behalf Of Shaun Ewing
Sent: Tuesday, 26 June 2012 9:54 AM
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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.

P Save Paper - Do you really need to print this e-mail?


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